[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 3 (Friday, January 5, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S73]
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 Father, in the welter of human words, our souls cry out, 
``Is there any word from the Lord?''
  We wonder what You have to say about our present crisis. In our 
deepest hearts we know all too well. You call all of us to absolute 
honesty with You and with each other, and to mean what we say and to do 
what we promise. So often we speak across the cavern of contentious 
conflict, but do not listen to each other. You command all of us to 
humble ourselves and repent of the use of coercion because we have 
failed effectively to communicate our perception of truth or convince 
each other of the theories and programs we hold so dear. We meet, but 
sometimes there is not a meeting of minds because often our desire is 
to defeat those we consider to be the opposition and to rally the 
approval of our constituencies. Our attention to the polls keeps us 
poles apart. Pious attitudes mask petulant agendas.
  O God, we all are accountable to You. We give up the human power 
struggle so that we may receive Your power to humbly move forward 
toward workable solutions. In the name of our Lord. Amen.

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