[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 206 (Thursday, December 21, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S19025]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer:

Dear Lord and Father of mankind
Forgive our feverish ways
Reclothe us in our rightful mind,
In purer lives thy service find,
In deeper reverence, praise.
Take from our souls the strain and stress,
And let our ordered lives confess
The beauty of Your peace.--Whittier.

  O God, You have promised to keep us in perfect peace if we allow You 
to stay our minds on You. This is the peace we need today. The conflict 
and tension of these days threaten to rob us of the holiday spirit. It 
is easy to catch the emotional virus of frustration and exasperation. 
Then we remember that Your peace is the healing antidote that can 
survive in any circumstance. Give us a peace of a cleansed and 
committed heart, a free and forgiving heart, a caring and compassionate 
heart. May Your deep peace flow into us calming our impatience and flow 
from us to others claiming Your inspiration. In the name of the Prince 
of Peace who whispers in our souls, ``Peace I leave with you, My peace 
I give to you. Not as the world gives, give I to you. Let not your 
heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.'' In Jesus' name. Amen.

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