[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 54 (Thursday, March 23, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S4409]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, the Reverend John Lloyd Ogilvie, D.D., offered the 
following prayer:
  Let us pray:
  We begin this day on the firm foundation of the indefatigable 
faithfulness of God. We exclaim with Jeremiah, ``Through the Lord's 
mercies we are consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new 
every morning; great is Your faithfulness.''--Jeremiah 3:22-23.
  Almighty God, we praise You for the constancy and consistency of Your 
faithfulness in blessing and guiding the Senate of the United States 
through the years of our Nation's history. We turn to You again today 
and know that You will be faithful to give the women and men of this 
Senate exactly what is needed in each hour, each challenge, each 
decision. Often we become burdened with the heavy responsibilities of 
leadership on our shoulders. When we pray: Lord lighten the load or 
strengthen our backs. Your response is to strengthen us physically, 
intellectually, and spiritually. You never fail us; never let us down; 
never leave or forsake us.
  Empower us to emulate Your faithfulness in our responsibilities and 
relationships today. May we be people on whom others can depend. Help 
us to say what we mean and mean what we say. We want each decision to 
be guided by how we perceive You would decide. Give us light when our 
vision is dim, courage when we need to be bold, decisiveness when it 
would be easy to equivocate, and hope when others are tempted to be 
discouraged. So we commit ourselves to be Your faithful servants, the 
examples of patriotism to our people, and the crusaders for Your best 
for our Nation. In Your holy name Yahweh and through Christ our Lord.


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