[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 25 (Wednesday, March 9, 1994)]
[Senate]
[Page S]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The guest chaplain, the Reverend Hensel E. Hendrickson, offered the 
following prayer:
  Let us pray:
  Almighty God, whose presence throughout history has been known and 
experienced by generations of people, we thank You today for the 
availability of Your guidance in our lives.
  Help us to look within ourselves to detect the Divine power that has 
enabled many to be people of vision and valor during trying moments of 
hardship and adversity.
  Allow us to look beyond ourselves, to those who struggle under the 
gravity of oppression, searching for the hope of the dawning of a new 
day that will bring peace and justice.
  Give us courage as we contemplate the mission that we have been 
called upon to undertake while it is day, or as the words of Chaplain 
Peter Marshall to this assembly 45 years ago reminds us, ``Deliver us 
from the fear of what might happen and give us the grace to enjoy what 
now is and to keep striving after what ought to be.''
  In Your name we pray. Amen.

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