[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 96 (Wednesday, July 9, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Page S7035]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer:
  Generous Father, help us to be more gracious receivers. We talk a lot 
about giving but often find it difficult to give to others what they 
need because we have been stingy receivers of Your grace and goodness. 
We cannot give what we do not have. Remind us that to love You is to 
allow You to love us profoundly. Then we will be able to love others 
unselfishly. The same is true for the gifts we need from You for our 
leadership. We need Your supernatural gift of discernment. Help us be 
willing to receive Your divine intelligence rather than obdurately 
insisting on making it on our own limited resources. Invade our 
thinking with insight and inspiration we could not produce on our own. 
You wait to bless us. We receive not because we do not ask. All through 
this day, make us aware of our great need for You and the great things 
You want to do through us. In the name of our Lord and Saviour. Amen.

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