[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 83 (Thursday, May 18, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S6837]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer:
  You will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on You, 
because he trusts in You.--Isaiah 26:3.
  Jehovah Shalom, we thank You for this marvelously direct and 
uncluttered promise. We long for this superlative quality of peace, and 
for good reason. You have called us to lead this great Nation. To 
enable us to be creative Copernican thinkers about the problems and 
opportunities before us this day, You seek to give us profound inner 
peace.
  But Lord, we find it difficult to stay our minds on You. We try to 
focus on You and often our attention wanders; we seek to listen to You 
and the sound waves to our hearts are cluttered with the static of 
distracting voices; we want to trust You, but years of self-reliance 
make it difficult to wait patiently for Your answers. Most of the time 
our motto is, ``I have just got to get control of my life!'' Ah, 
there's the issue, Lord. We were never meant to usurp Your control. Now 
in the quiet of this time of prayer we discover the secret: You alone 
can keep our minds stayed on You. All we can do is ask for the miracle 
of a day lived in constant awareness of Your abiding presence. May this 
be a day crammed full of spectacular moments when You keep our minds 
steady, our hearts calm, and our wills alert to Your will. Lord of 
peace, keep our minds on You. Amen.


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