[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 87 (Friday, June 20, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Page S6017]
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 God, often we speak of Your omnipotence and omniscience. 
Today, we contemplate Your loneliness. You created us to know and love 
You. With vulnerability, You gave us freedom to choose to respond to 
You and fill the void in Your heart shaped by each of us. We are 
profoundly moved that there is a place each of us can fill. All through 
human history You have been seeking, searching, questing for 
humankind's response of faith and trust in You. You have revealed 
Yourself and are yearning to have us in a right relationship with You. 
You have ordained that You would enter the affairs of humankind at our 
invitation and exercise Your care and guidance through us. You have all 
power, and yet, You have chosen to work through us. This has great 
meaning for us.
  You have called the Senators to lead this Nation. You will seek entry 
into the momentous as well as the mundane details of this day through 
them.
  And so, in this quiet moment we all are drawn back to You by the 
magnetism of Your love and yield all we will do today to Your sovereign 
guidance. It is awesome to realize how much we mean to You and how much 
You trust us to seek and do Your will. Here we are: ready, willing, and 
listening for Your direction, for You are our Lord and Saviour. Amen.
  Ms. COLLINS addressed the Chair.
  The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The able acting majority leader, the 
distinguished Senator from Maine, is recognized.

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