[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 128 (Tuesday, September 23, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Page S9737]
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 the stirrings in our minds and the 
longings in our hearts that are sure evidence that You are calling us 
into prayer. Long before we call, You answer by creating the desire to 
renew our relationship with You. You allow that feeling of emptiness in 
the pit of our being to alert us to our hunger for fellowship with You.
  Our thirst for Your truth, our quest for Your solutions to our needs, 
and our yearning for Your answers to our problems are all assurances 
that before we articulated our prayers, You were preparing the answers. 
It is a magnificent, liberating thought that all through this day when 
we cry out for Your help, You have already been waiting for us to give 
up our persistent self-reliance and start drawing on the supernatural 
strength and superabundant wisdom You are so eager to give us.
  Thank You for a day filled with serendipities of Your intervention. 
In the name of our Lord and Saviour. Amen.

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