[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 69 (Thursday, April 27, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S5739]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray:
  Gracious Lord of all life, help us never to separate what You have 
joined together. All of life is sacred to You. Forgive our imposed 
dichotomy between the sacred and the secular. Every person, situation, 
and responsibility is sacred because everyone and everything belongs to 
You. Give us a renewed sense that all that we have and are is Your 
gift. So may we cherish the wonder of life You have entrusted to us and 
live with an attitude of gratitude. May this gratitude be the motive of 
our work today in this Senate. We want our work to be an expression of 
our worship of You. Therefore we make a renewed commitment to 
excellence in everything we do and say.
  All this is rooted in the inseparable relationship between intimacy 
with You and the integrity of our leadership. You've shown us that 
authentic intimacy results when the real I meets the true You in an 
honest, open, unpretentious relationship. It's when we come to You as 
we are that You whisper in our souls, ``You are loved now!'' Then the 
consistent experience of Your unqualified love gives us the courage to 
be genuine, loyal, and faithful to You in our relationships with others 
and our responsibilities as leaders to whom You can entrust authority 
and power to govern this Nation.
  Thank You for this time of quiet with You in which we can receive the 
peace of knowing that we are loved and forgiven, the healing of the 
hurts of harbored memories, the answers to problems that seem 
unsolvable, and the vision for our Nation that otherwise would be 
beyond our human understanding. We praise You that to know You is our 
greatest joy and to serve You is life's greatest delight. In the name 
of Him who is the way, the truth, and the life. Amen.


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