[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 133 (Wednesday, August 9, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S11969]
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, we ask You to help us keep our priorities straight. You 
have created us to love people and use things. Often we have reversed 
the order: We love things and use people. What's worse we sometimes use 
people as if they were things.
  It happens on the personal level when we lose a sense of the 
sacredness of the people around us. We easily become insensitive to 
their needs and use them as means to accomplish our ends. We end up 
with too many ``I-it'' relationships and become ``thinging-it'' people.
  On a broader scale, we are constantly confronted with the immensity 
of human need and suffering. Too often we loose our sensitivity in the 
maze of statistics. This week as we've considered welfare and then 
concerns over needs among our native American Indians, we have sought 
to feel deeply and respond decisively. Guide us Lord in today's 
consideration of Indian programs as part of the Interior legislation.
  Father, You love each of us and seek to implement Your caring through 
all of us. Help us to put righteousness and justice into creative 
action. In Your love-motivating name. Amen.


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