[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 3]
[Senate]
[Page 4106]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  Creator God, alert our senses to Your world. Let sight and sound, 
taste and touch remind us that You are sovereign and in control of the 
unfolding events of our planet.
  Give our lawmakers the desire to do Your will. Equip them with deeper 
insight and loftier courage, enabling them to act not only for today 
but for the coming hour of Your Kingdom. Keep their idealism and dreams 
of a better world from being crushed by disappointment, doubts, and 
despair. Show them the way of servanthood, which sanctifies every task 
done for Your glory. We pray in Your sacred Name. Amen.

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