[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 8]
[Senate]
[Page 11845]
[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, You are our God. Our thirsty souls seek You. Lord, we look to 
You for help, longing to see Your power and might because Your loving 
kindness is better than life.
  Guide our Senators. Conform their lives more and more to fulfill Your 
purposes, using them as instruments of good in a challenging world. May 
they yield themselves to Your Spirit that Your promised kingdom of 
truth and righteousness may become the kingdom of all humanity.
  Lord, today as we remember the 1998 U.S. Capitol shooting tragedy, we 
pause to thank You for the sacrifice of Officer Jacob J. Chestnut and 
Detective John M. Gibson.
  We pray in Your merciful Name. Amen.

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