[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 154 (Friday, September 29, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S14573]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray:
  Lord of history, God of Abraham and Israel, we praise You for 
answered prayer for peace in the Middle East manifested in the historic 
peace treaty signed yesterday between the Palestinian Liberation 
Organization and Israel. We press on to the work of this day in the 
assurance that You are in control and seek to accomplish Your plans 
through us if we will trust You.
  Oh God, together we salute You as Lord of our lives, the One to whom 
we all must report, the only One we ultimately need to please, and the 
One who is the final judge of our leadership, we pray that our shared 
loyalty to You as our Sovereign Lord will draw us closer to one another 
in the bond of service to our Nation. It is in fellowship with You that 
we find one another. Whenever we are divided in our differences over 
secondary matters, remind us of our oneness on essential issues; our 
accountability to You, our commitment to Your Commandments, our 
dedication to Your justice and mercy, our patriotism for our Nation, 
and our shared prayer that through our efforts You will provide Your 
best for our Nation. There's something else, Lord: We all admit our 
total dependence on Your presence to give us strength and courage. So 
with one mind and a shared commitment, we humbly fall on the knees of 
our hearts and ask that You bless us and keep us, make Your face shine 
upon us, lift up Your countenance before us, and grant us Your peace. 
In the name of Jesus. Amen.

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