[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 3]
[Senate]
[Page 3865]
[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 Spirit, we praise You because of Your righteousness, and lift 
our hearts in adoration to You, the King, Most High. Pour eternity into 
these brief lives of ours and use us for Your glory.
  Lift our lawmakers to the heights of noble living, renewing them with 
Your hope and strengthening them with Your power. Lord show them how to 
make wise use of their days to become the people they ought to be and 
to do the things that make for peace in our Nation and world. May their 
highest motive be not to win over one another, but to win with one 
another by doing Your will.
  Lord, we ask that You sustain the victims of the seismic devastation 
in Japan. We pray in Your great Name. Amen.

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