[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 10 (Wednesday, January 18, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S1017]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The guest chaplain, the Reverend Mark E. Dever, offered the following 
prayer:
  Let us pray:
  God over all rulers, You are a great God, worthy of all our worship.
  In Your presence we are aware of how different we are from You. No 
earthly accomplishments can hide that fact from us.
  We rejoice that we are made in Your image, but we confess that we 
have marred that image by our rebellion against You. Thank You for Your 
patience with us. Lord God, give us humility as we go about great 
business.
  Thank You for entrusting to these men and women the privilege of 
accepting and executing the offices to which You have called them.
  We bring before You the problems of our day which seem beyond 
solution. Forgive us for our lack of faith in You, for our 
forgetfulness of Your remarkable goodness to us in years past. Remind 
us that when we begin to feel ourselves beyond hope, that then we are 
entering the arena in which You delight to act.
  Remind these Senators even this day of Your concern for them and 
their work.
  Educate the consciences of this Nation, and particularly of the 
Members of this Chamber, that their will in some manner would reflect 
Your own.
  Help them to manage their public and private duties well.
  Help them to maintain piety, justice, and peace by the laws they 
write.
  Help them to see clearly the good and right way of compromise in 
detail, and to find unity in principle.
  Give them an appreciation for the good desires of each other, a care 
to listen in disagreement, a willingness to reevaluate, a resolve to 
act.
  We ask this of you because of our dependence on you for all things, 
through Jesus Christ. Amen.


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