[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 3]
[Senate]
[Page 3993]
[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, keep us always thankful for Your mercy and grace. May we 
never take for granted Your generous gifts to us and begin and end each 
day with words of petition, intercession, and thanksgiving.
  Continue to bless our lawmakers. Give them the wisdom to keep our 
Nation on the sure foundation of Your righteousness. May our Senators 
be bastions of moral and spiritual power for the coming of Your kingdom 
of justice and peace. Lord, give them the higher vision to work with 
integrity and to be content with the judgment of history and the 
knowledge of Your approval.
  We pray in Your holy Name. Amen.

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