[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 80 (Tuesday, June 10, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Page S5431]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer:
  Listen to this remarkable promise from the Prophet Isaiah:
  Then you shall call and the Lord will answer; you shall cry, and he 
will say, ``Here I am.''--Isaiah 58:9.
  Let us pray.
  Almighty God, You also said through the Prophet Isaiah that when we 
call, You will answer and while we are speaking You will hear--Isaiah 
65:24. We thank You that prayer begins with You. It originates in Your 
heart, sweeps into our hearts, and gives us the boldness to ask what 
You desire to give.
  Today, may constant conversation with You hone the desires of our 
hearts until they are Your desires for us and for our work together. 
Then, dear Father, grant us the desires of our hearts. May our human 
understanding be surpassed by Your gift of supernatural knowledge, our 
inadequate judgment with Your omniscient wisdom, and our limited 
expectations with Your propitious plans for us. We yield our minds, 
hearts, wills, and imaginations to be channels for the flow of Your 
divine guidance.
  Bless the Senators in the decisions they must make and the votes they 
will cast. Give them, and all of us who work with them, Your strength 
to endure and Your courage to triumph in things great and small that we 
attempt for the good of all. In Your holy name. Amen.

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