[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 128 (Tuesday, September 17, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S10617]
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, loving Father, who has taught us to give thanks for all 
things, to dread nothing but the loss of closeness with You, and to 
cast all our cares on You, who cares for us, set us free from timerous 
timidity when it comes to living the absolutes of Your Commandments and 
speaking with the authority of Your truth. We are living in a time of 
moral confusion. We talk a great deal about values, but have lost our 
grip on Your standards. Bring us back to the basics of honesty, 
integrity, and trustworthiness. We want to be authentic people rather 
than professional caricatures of character. May people know that they 
will get what they see. Free us from capricious dissimulations, from 
covered duality, from covert duplicity. Instead of manipulating with 
power games, help us motivate with patriotism, grant us the passion we 
knew when we first heard Your call to political leadership, the 
idealism we had when we were driven by a cause greater than ourselves, 
and the inspiration we knew when Your Spirit was our only source of 
strength. May this be a day to recapture our first love for You and our 
first priority of glorifying You by serving our Nation. In the name of 
our Lord and Savior. Amen.

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