[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 41 (Thursday, April 2, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Page S3023]
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 God, we begin this day by making the psalmist's prayer our 
moment by moment petition. ``Teach me to do Your will, for You are my 
God.''--Psalm 143:10. Remind us that discovering and doing Your will is 
not like flying on automatic pilot where we turn on the flight plan and 
forget about it. Instead, it is a sensitive, attentive relationship 
with You in which You communicate Your guidance to receptive minds each 
step of the way. You lead us when we concentrate all our desires on 
clearly knowing what is Your will for us. Our yearning to know Your 
will drives us back into deeper fellowship with You. We want to be 
spiritually fit so that no debilitating memory, broken relationship, or 
unforgiven hurt would render us incapable of receiving Your guidance.
  Bless the Senators as they seek Your best for America in vital issues 
and in minute details lest real concerns are trivialized and minutia 
becomes momentous. In the Name of our Lord and Savior. Amen.

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