[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 129 (Friday, August 4, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S11353]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilve, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray:
  Almighty God, Holy Father, You created us for Yourself and our hearts 
are restless until they rest in You. We confess our ambivalence. We 
want You to be Lord of our lives and yet, sometimes, we are filled with 
reservations. We need Your love, and yet fear the implications of 
loving others as You love us. We want Your direction in our lives, but 
are troubled about losing our own control. We pray for America to be a 
great nation under Your sovereign reign, but there are times when we 
are reluctant to ask You to begin a vital spiritual awakening in our 
own hearts.
  But Lord, we are willing to be made willing. Help us to see what our 
lives could be if we loved You with all our hearts, and if our self-
erected obstacles to trusting You completely were removed and You had 
Your way with us.
  And so, today we open our minds to think inspired by the wisdom of 
Your spirit; we commit our wills to seek the guidance of Your spirit; 
and we face the challenges of this day with the power of Your spirit. 
In Your holy name. Amen.


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