[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 105 (Wednesday, July 23, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Page S7879]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer:
  Sovereign Father, as we begin this new day filled with 
responsibilities and soul-sized issues, we are irresistibly drawn into 
Your presence by the magnetism of Your love and our need for guidance. 
We come to You at Your invitation; in the quiet of intimate communion 
with You, the tightly wound springs of pressure and stress are released 
and a profound inner peace fills our hearts and minds.
  We hear again the impelling cadences of the drumbeat of Your Spirit 
calling us to press on in the battle for truth, righteousness, and 
justice. Our minds snap to full attention, and our hearts salute You as 
Sovereign Lord. You have given us minds capable of receiving Your mind, 
an imagination able to envision Your plan and purpose for us, and a 
will ready to do Your will.
  Help us to remember that no problem is too small to escape Your 
concern and no perplexity is too great to resist Your solutions. We 
know You will go before us to show us the way, behind us to press us 
forward, beside us to give us courage, above us to protect us, and 
within us to give us wisdom and discernment. Through our Lord and 
Saviour. Amen.

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