[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 56 (Monday, May 5, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Page S3933]
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, Sovereign of this Nation and Lord of our lives, our 
purpose is to glorify You by serving our Nation. We want to express 
energetic earnestness about our work today. Help us to know what You 
want and then want what we know; to say what we mean, and mean what we 
say. Give us resoluteness and intentionality. Free us to listen to You 
so intently that we can speak with intrepidness. Keep us in the battle 
for truth rather than ego skirmishes over secondary issues. Make us 
party to Your plans so we can give leadership to our parties, and then 
help our parties to work together to accomplish Your purposes. Make us 
one in the earnestness of patriotism.
  Before us is a new week filled with more to do than we can accomplish 
on our own strength. Grant the Senators intellectual, emotional, and 
volitional strength to envision a week in which what is truly important 
gets done. Help them expeditiously to move through the supplemental 
appropriations legislation and amendments listening to each other and 
making guided decisions. Lift our anchors out of the mud of any 
combative competition, lift our sails, and remind us that it is Your 
set of our sails and not the gales that determine where we shall go. In 
the name of our Lord and Savior. Amen.

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