[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 71 (Tuesday, May 2, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S5931]
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:
  Almighty God, Creator, Sustainer, and Lord of all, You who have 
brought light out of darkness and have created us to know You, we 
praise You for Your guidance. As we begin the work of this Senate 
today, we acknowledge again our total dependence on You. Revelation of 
Your truth comes in relationship with You; Your inspiration is given 
when we are illuminated with Your spirit. Therefore, we prepare for the 
decisive decisions of this day by opening our minds to the inflow of 
Your spirit. We confess that we need Your divine intelligence to invade 
our thinking brains and flood us with Your light in the dimness of our 
limited understanding.
  Gracious Lord, You know what is ahead today for the women and men of 
this Senate. Crucial issues confront them. Votes will be cast and 
aspects of the future of our Nation will be shaped by what is decided. 
And so, we say with the Psalmist, ``Show me Your ways, O Lord; teach me 
Your paths. Lead me in Your truth and teach me, for You are the God of 
my salvation; on You I wait all the day.''--Psalm 25: 4-5. ``I delight 
to do Your will, O my God, and Your law is within my heart.''--Psalm 
40:8.
  We praise You Lord, that when this day comes to an end we will have 
the deep inner peace of knowing that You heard and answered this prayer 
for guidance. In the name of Him who is Truth. Amen.


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