[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Page 16350]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  Eternal God, who undergirds our weakness with Your strength, look 
with favor upon us today. With Your favor, we can face any future with 
the confident assurance that You control our destinies.
  As our lawmakers wrestle with great issues, let Your presence provide 
them with the empowering experience of inner quiet and certainty. Guide 
them by Your enabling might that they may maintain their integrity.
  Lord, give us all an inheritance, incorruptible and undefiled, that 
does not fade away.
  We pray in Your sacred Name. Amen.

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