[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 79 (Tuesday, June 21, 1994)]
[Senate]
[Page S]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Richard C. Halverson, D.D., offered the 
following prayer:
  Let us pray:
  * * * they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they 
shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; 
and they shall walk, and not faint.--Isaiah 40:31.
  Eternal God, the wisdom of Isaiah speaks to our contemporary, 
frenzied lifestyle. We can go faster than ever, but we never seem to 
have enough time, and we never seem to arrive. We have more of 
everything, materially, than any other culture at any other time, but 
we never seem to have enough. Our technological progress exceeds 
unimaginable bounds, while we disintegrate and decay socially and 
culturally. We pass hundreds of laws, yet crime and poverty and 
violence increase.
  Patient God, lead us to the light of Isaiah's wisdom that we may 
learn to wait upon the Lord and be continually renewed.
  In the name of Him whose strength is made perfect in our weakness. 
Amen.

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