[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 49 (Thursday, March 16, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S4001]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Lloyd John Ogilvie, D.D., offered the 
following prayer:
  Let us pray:
  O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is Your name in all the Earth. What 
is man that You are mindful of him and the Son of Man that You visit 
him? You have created him a little lower than the angels and crowned 
him with glory and honor. You have given him dominion over the work of 
Your hands.
  Gracious God, ultimate Sovereign of this Nation and Lord of our 
lives, we are stunned again by Your majesty and the magnitude of the 
delegated dominion You have entrusted to us. We respond with awe and 
wonder and begin this day with renewed commitment to be servant 
leaders. In a culture that often denies Your sovereignty and worships 
at the throne of the perpendicular pronoun, help us to exemplify the 
greatness of servanthood. You have given us a life full of 
opportunities to serve, freed us from self-serving aggrandizement, and 
enabled us to live at full potential for Your glory. We humble 
ourselves before You and acknowledge that we could not breathe a 
breath, think a thought, make sound decisions, or press on to 
excellence without Your power. By Your appointment we are where we, 
doing the work You have given us to do, called to lead this great 
Nation. You alone are the one we seek to please. We have been blessed 
to be a blessing. And so we greet this day with, ``Life's a 
privilege!'' intentionality and ``How may I serve?'' incisiveness. 
Grant us grace and courage to give ourselves away to You and to others 
with whom we work this day.
 In Your Holy Name Yahweh, in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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