[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 86 (Wednesday, June 12, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S6113]
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, the divine Potter of our lives, our days are in Your 
hands. Shape the clay as You have planned. May the day work out exactly 
as You have arranged it for Your glory and our growth. We say with the 
psalmist, ``I delight to do Your will, O my God, and Your law is within 
my heart.''--Psalm 40:8. We long to know what is best for our Nation. 
Now at the beginning of another day, we commit to You the challenges 
and decisions that are ahead of us. We desire to glorify You, so show 
us what You desire. With inspired intentionality, we put our 
relationship with You first and make our primary goal what is best for 
our Nation.
  This morning, gracious Lord, we thank You for the newly elected 
Republican leadership. We ask Your special blessing to be upon Trent 
Lott and Don Nickles as they work together closely with Tom Daschle and 
Wendell Ford and the leadership of both parties to seek Your glory and 
to do Your will.
  We pray this prayer in the name of the way, the truth, and the life. 
Amen.

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