[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 80 (Wednesday, June 22, 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:
  As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after 
thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God * * *.--
Psalm 42:1, 2.
  Sovereign Lord of Love, help us heed the emptiness of life which God 
alone can fill. St. Augustine reminded us, ``Thou hast made us for 
Thyself, O God, and our souls are restless until they rest in Thee.'' 
We have been told that, ``There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart 
that only God can fill.''
  Help us to understand ourselves, patient God--our need of Thee--our 
poverty without Thee. Forgive the way we allow secularism to invade our 
lives, dehumanizing us, lest we become a Godless generation which has 
lost its way. Lead us in the way to life and fulfillment.
  We pray in His name who was perfection incarnate. Amen.

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