[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 80 (Monday, May 15, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S6645]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer:
  Gracious God, whom to know is life's ultimate purpose, whom to serve 
is our deepest joy, and whom to trust is our only lasting peace, we 
commit to You the work of this Senate. You have made praise the secret 
of opening our minds and hearts to You, the key to unlocking the 
mysteries of Your will, and the source of turning difficulties into 
opportunities. When we praise You for even life's tight places and 
trying people, we are strangely liberated. You have made praise the 
highest form of commitment of our needs.
  So we begin this week with praise to You for the blessings we could 
neither deserve or earn and for the problems in which You will reveal 
Your supernatural guidance and power.
  We dedicate this week to be one in which we constantly give You 
praise in all things, especially the perplexities that force us to seek 
You and Your limitless grace. In Your Holy Name. Amen.


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