[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 147 (Tuesday, October 28, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Page S11245]
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, our hearts are filled with gratitude. We are 
thankful that You have chosen to be our God and have chosen us to know 
You. Your love embraces us and gives us security; Your joy uplifts us 
and gives us resiliency; Your peace floods our hearts and gives us 
serenity; Your Spirit fills us and gives us strength.
  We truly believe that Your loving hand is upon our lives; help us to 
be sensitive to every guiding nudge of direction. Keep us from making 
up our minds and then asking for Your approval. Keep us from acting as 
if we have Your answers to all questions. Keep us humble in our search 
for our applications of Your truth to the matters that face us. Free us 
from condemnatory judgments, and save us from the exhaustion and 
frustration of rushing up self-chosen paths without Your guidance.
  Give us insight to see Your path for our lives, and the patience and 
endurance to walk in it with our hands firmly in Yours. Through our 
Lord and Saviour. Amen.

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