[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 21 (Tuesday, February 20, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S1269]
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 God, thank You for revealing the quality of Your love which You 
seek to reproduce in our relationships. You have told us that:
  Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not 
parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek 
its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil, does not rejoice in iniquity 
but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes 
all things, endures all things. Love never fails.--I Corinthians 13:4-
8a.
  Father, may we experience this quality of love in our relationship 
with You so we will be able to love one another with the same giving 
and forgiving, indefatigable and inexhaustible love. Give us tough love 
for troublesome thick-skinned people and tender love for overly 
sensitive thin-skinned people. Today help us to be as kind, accepting, 
and patient to others as You have been to us. In the Lord's name. Amen.

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