[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 49 (Tuesday, April 28, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Page S3665]
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, life can be simply awful or awfully simple. Today, we 
choose the awfully simple but sublime secret of a great day: Your work, 
done on Your power, achieves Your results on Your timing. We reject the 
simplistic idea that things work out, and ask You, dear Lord, to work 
out things. Before us is a new day filled with more to do than we can 
accomplish on our own strength. You have given us the power of inspired 
imagination to envision a day in which what is truly important gets 
done. Help us to move expeditiously through today's work, to listen to 
You and each other, and to make guided decisions. Pull our anchors out 
of the mud of combative competition, lift our sails, and remind us that 
it is Your set of our sails, and not the gales, that determines where 
we will go.
  Lord, we believe that the work we will do this day is crucial for our 
Nation. This is the day You have given. We intend to live to the 
fullest with Your guidance, by Your power, and for Your glory. In the 
name of the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Amen.

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