[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 8 (Monday, February 9, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Page S465]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer:
  Almighty God, our Father, we begin this new week with a sense of Your 
spirit calling us to prayer.
  In response, we praise You, not only for all that You give us and do 
for us but for who You are. You are our Creator, sustainer, redeemer, 
strength, and hope. Most of all, we praise You for Your grace--Your 
unchanging, unqualified, unlimited love. It is given before we deserve 
it and is never dependent on our earning it.
  Your love opens us up to You. It makes us willing to confess anything 
that stands between us and You and between us and anyone else. Forgive 
what we have done and what we have left undone. Most of all, forgive 
our reluctance to love and affirm others. Help us to be to others the 
love that You have been to us.
  We commit our loved ones and friends to Your care. They need Your 
strength and courage. And we commit ourselves to work today as an 
expression of our worship of You.
  Dear God, bless America. Give us Your vision for the future and a 
determination to be faithful and obedient to You. Through our Lord and 
Savior. Amen.

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