[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 91 (Tuesday, June 6, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S7713]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer:
  Almighty God, we all have known grim days and great days. Some days 
are filled with strain and stress while on other days everything goes 
smoothly and successfully. Life can be simply awful or awfully simple. 
Today, we choose the awfully simple but sublime secret of a great day. 
Your work, done by Your power, achieves Your results, on Your time. We 
reject the idea that things work out and ask You, dear Lord, to work 
out things. Before us is a new day filled with more to do than we can 
accomplish on our own strength. You have given us the power of 
sanctified imagination to envision a day in which what is truly 
important gets done. Help us expeditiously to move through the 
amendments presented today, to listen to You through each other and 
make guided decisions. Pull our anchors out of the mud of combative 
competition. Lift our sails and remind us that it is Your set of our 
sails and not the gales that determine where we shall go.
  Lord, we believe that the work we shall do this day is crucial for 
our Nation. Help us to complete the assignment of finishing the 
antiterrorism legislation for the welfare of our people. This is the 
day You have given. We intend to live it to the fullest with Your 
guidance, by Your power, and for Your glory. Amen.

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