[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 8 (Tuesday, January 28, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Page S693]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer:
  Dear Father, we need You more than anything You can give us. In Your 
presence we feel Your grace. We are assured that we are loved and 
forgiven. You replenish our diminished strength with a fresh flow of 
energy and resiliency. The tightly wound springs of tension within us 
are released and unwind until there is a profound peace inside. We 
relinquish our worries to You and our anxiety drains away. We take 
courage because You have taken hold of us. Now we know that courage is 
fear that has said its prayers. We spread out before You the challenges 
of the day ahead and see them in the proper perspective of Your power. 
We dedicate ourselves to do things Your way under Your sway. And now, 
Your joy that is so much more than happiness fills us. We press on to 
the work of the day with enthusiasm. It's great to be alive. In the 
name of our Lord and Savior. Amen.

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