[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 113 (Tuesday, September 2, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Page S8631]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer:
  Eternal God, Creator of heaven and Earth, and Lord of our lives, our 
hearts are profoundly moved by the recent and acute reminder of the 
shortness of time and the length of eternity. We have been stunned by 
the untimely and tragic death of Diana, Princess of Wales. We join with 
all Americans in expressing profound sympathy to the British people, 
and the royal family, and poignant empathy for her sons, Prince William 
and Prince Harry. Comfort and strengthen them in their grief. We thank 
you for the all too brief life of Princess Diana, for her humanitarian 
efforts to care for crucial causes and human suffering.
  And so Lord, we begin the next phase of the work of this Senate with 
a sense of our own mortality and the urgency of living life to Your 
glory each day. Help us to come to know You and love You so that we may 
serve You to the fullest and do those things which will have a lasting 
impact on our Nation and the world. We pray with the psalmist, ``So 
teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart with wisdom''--
Psalm 90:12. Through our Lord and Saviour. Amen.

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