[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 60 (Wednesday, May 13, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Page S4749]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer:
  Lord of all life, You have shown us that a great life is an 
accumulation of days lived to the fullest, one at a time, by Your grace 
and for Your glory. Thank You for the strength and vitality that surge 
within us when we open the floodgates of our minds and hearts and allow 
Your Spirit to empower us. When we invite You to be the unseen but 
enabling Presence in everything, we experience greater creativity, we 
think more clearly, we speak more lucidly, and we accomplish more with 
less strain and stress.
  Make us so secure in Your love, Lord, that we live this day with more 
concern for the future of our Nation than for the future of our 
careers, with more concern for our success together than for personal 
success, and with more dedication to honest debate with civility than 
to winning arguments. We commit ourselves to press on with crucial 
issues on the agenda. Give us a renewed sense of our calling to serve 
You and a deeper trust in Your faithfulness to give us exactly what we 
need in each hour. Through our Lord and Saviour. Amen.

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