[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 40 (Thursday, March 21, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S2553]
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 Lord, You know what is ahead today for the women and men of 
this Senate. Crucial issues confront them. Votes will be cast and 
aspects of the future of our Nation will be shaped by what is decided. 
And so, we say with the Psalmist:

       Show me Your ways, O Lord; teach me Your paths. Lead me in 
     Your truth and teach me, for You are the God of my salvation; 
     on You I wait all the day.--Psalm 25:4-5.

       `I delight to do Your will, O my God, and Your law is 
     within my heart.--Psalm 40:8.

  We prepare for the decisions of today by opening our minds to the 
inflow of Your spirit. We confess that we need Your divine intelligence 
to invade our thinking brains and flood us with Your light in the 
dimness of our limited understanding.
  We praise You, Lord, that when this day comes to an end we will have 
the deep inner peace of knowing that You heard and answered this prayer 
for guidance. In the name of Him who is the Truth. Amen.

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