[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 19 (Thursday, February 13, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Page S1339]
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, before we press on with the demands of today, we need to 
open our minds to You. We say with the psalmist, ``Truly my soul 
silently waits for God.''--Psalm 62:1. So often we rush off in all 
directions before we know what You want us to be and do. Sometimes the 
communication lines with You get jammed by our flow of words to You 
without listening to what You have to say to us. Prayer becomes like a 
telephone conversation in which we hang up on You before You have a 
chance to respond to the questions and the needs that we have spread 
out before You. Today we want to keep the lines open and really listen 
to You. Give us the patience to wait for Your creative insight about 
how to solve problems and grasp the potentials You arrange for us. 
Through our Lord and Savior. Amen.

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