[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 110 (Wednesday, July 24, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S8583]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer:
  Almighty God, and Lord of our lives, we come into Your presence and 
fall on the knees of our hearts with praise and adoration. It is with 
awe and wonder that we behold Your signature in the natural world and 
the sheer majesty of Your creation of human life. You have given us 
minds to think Your thoughts, emotions to express Your love, wills to 
discern and do Your will, and bodies intricately made to reflect Your 
glory. We thank You for all our faculties, but especially for the gift 
of hearing. Help us never to take for granted the amazing process by 
which sounds are registered on our eardrums, and carried through the 
audio nerve to our cerebral cortex to be translated into thoughts of 
recognition, comprehension, and response. Through the wondrous gift we 
can hear the song of a lark, majestic music of a sonata, loved one's 
words of love and hope, and Your own Word in the Scriptures as they are 
read or proclaimed from across the reaches of time.
  We ask You to give us a hearing heart like Solomon prayed for so 
fervently. May we spend quality time with You so that You may speak to 
the ears of our minds and hearts. We want to make no decision until we 
have asked for and received Your guidance. Speak Lord, Your servants 
are listening. Amen.

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