[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 132 (Tuesday, September 20, 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:
  Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee * * 
*.--Isaiah 26:3.
  Thank You, dear God, for this thoughtful word of the prophet, Isaiah. 
Thank You for the offer of peace--the ``peace that passeth 
understanding''--which can be ours when we trust in Thee. Thank You for 
the peace in Haiti. Deliver us, Lord, from the prison of materialism, 
secularism, and the hopeless bondage of seeing the temporal as the 
ultimate of thinking and believing.
  Gracious God of truth and love and mercy, help us to realize how 
limited we are when we rule out the transcendental--the vertical--the 
upward look--and confine ourselves to the horizontal limitations of the 
temporal.
  Lord of Life, awaken us to the limitless possibilities of peace and 
hope when we look to Thee and trust Thee. Give us eyes to see, ears to 
hear, minds to understand, hearts to receive the glorious reality so 
filled with hope which Isaiah promises.
  In the name of the Lord of Life. Amen.

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