[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 83 (Monday, June 16, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Page S5651]
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 Father, thank You for this time of prayer in which our minds 
and hearts can be enlarged to receive Your spirit. You are the answer 
to our deepest needs. More than any secondary gift You can give, we 
long for the primary grace of Yourself offered in profound love and 
acceptance. We have learned that when we abide in Your presence and are 
receptive to Your guidance, You inspire our minds with insight and 
wisdom, our hearts with resiliency and courage, and our bodies with 
vigor and vitality.
  Lord, as we begin this day, we commit all our worries to You. We 
entrust to You our concerns over people we will meet and the 
circumstances we will encounter and the problems we will face. Our 
desire is to give ourselves to the work of this day with freedom and 
joy. Give us strength when we become tired, fresh vision when our wells 
become dry, and enthusiastic hope when others become disappointed.
  Thank You, Father, for the constancy of Your care and love. With one 
heart we ask You to comfort and strengthen Tom Daschle now in his grief 
over the death of his father, Sebastian Daschle. Be with Tom's mother, 
Betty, and give her peace in her time of need. Place Your arms of love 
around this family. In the name of Him who is the resurrection and the 
life. Amen.

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