[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 10 (Thursday, January 25, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S355]
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, thank You for the stirrings in our minds and the 
longings in our hearts that are sure evidence that You are calling us 
into prayer. Long before we call, You answer by creating the desire to 
renew our relationship with You. You allow that feeling of emptiness in 
the pit of our being to alert us to our hunger for fellowship with You. 
Our thirst for Your truth, our quest for Your solutions to our Nation's 
needs, and our yearning for Your answers to our problems are all 
assurances that before we articulated our prayers, You were preparing 
the answers. It is a magnificent, liberating thought that all through 
this day when we cry out for Your help, it is You who have given us the 
courage to give up our dogged self-reliance and start drawing on the 
supernatural strength and superabundant wisdom You have been waiting 
for us to ask for so You could bless us. Thank You for a day filled 
with serendipities of your interventions. I pray this in the name of 
Jesus who taught us how to trust You completely. Amen.

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