[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 124 (Friday, July 28, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S10845]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer:
  Sovereign God, our help in all the ups and downs of life, all the 
triumphs and defeats of political life, and all the changes and 
challenges of leadership, You are our Lord in all seasons and for all 
reasons. We can come to You when life makes us glad or when it makes us 
sad. There is no place or circumstance beyond Your control. Wherever we 
go You are there waiting for us. You already are at work with people 
before we encounter them, You prepare solutions for our complexities, 
and You are ready to help us to resolve conflicts even before we ask 
You. And so, we claim Your promise given through Jeremiah, ``Call on 
Me, and I will answer you, and show great and mighty things you do not 
know.''--Jeremiah 33:3.
  Lord, we want our work this day and the end of this workweek to be 
done in such a way that You will be able to say, ``Well done, good and 
faithful servant.'' Our only goal is to please You in what we say and 
accomplish. Bless the Senators in the decisions they must make and the 
votes they will cast. Give them, and all of us who work with them, Your 
strength to endure and Your courage to triumph in things great and 
small that we attempt for the good of all. In Your holy name. Amen.

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