[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 7]
[Senate]
[Page 9050]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Barry C. Black, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  O God, who has blessed us abundantly with inner joy and external 
blessings, enlighten our minds this day so that we can reach beyond 
guessing to knowing and beyond doubting to certainty. Purify our hearts 
so that the wrong desires may not only be kept under control but may be 
destroyed.
  Strengthen the wills of our lawmakers so that they may pass beyond 
resolving to doing and beyond intention to action. Answer for them the 
questions no human wisdom can answer.
  We pray in Your merciful Name. Amen.

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