[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 115 (Wednesday, July 31, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S9209]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer:
  Holy Lord God, we admit that we often try to live our lives within 
the narrow, limited dimensions of our own wisdom and strength. As a 
result, we order our lives around our own abilities and skills and miss 
the adventure of life You have prepared for us. We confess to You all 
the things we do not attempt; the courageous deeds we contemplate but 
are afraid we cannot do, the gracious thoughts we do not express; the 
forgiveness we feel, but do not communicate. Forgive us, Lord, for 
settling for a life which is a mere shadow of what You have prepared 
for us, forgetting that You are able to do in and through us what we 
could never do by ourselves.
  Plant in us the vivid picture of what You are able to do with lives 
like ours, and give us the gift of new excitement about living life by 
Your triumphant power in the name of our Lord and Saviour. Amen.

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