[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 55 (Wednesday, April 21, 1999)]
[Senate]
[Page S3971]
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, You have given humankind freedom of will to choose to 
love and to serve You. Today we are painfully aware of the tragic 
misuse of this freedom in Kosovo and yesterday in Littleton, Colorado, 
at Columbine High School. It is with grief that we have followed the 
merciless bloodshed of ethnic cleansing in Kosovo. On television and in 
our daily newspapers, we have looked into the haunted, anguished faces 
of the refugees driven from their homes.
  And now, this morning, we are shocked by the accounts of the shooting 
of fellow students by disaffected young men filled with hate and anger. 
We pray for the parents, families, and friends of the many teenagers 
who were killed or wounded.
  O God, when there is no place else to turn, we return to You. You 
have not given up on humankind in spite of all the dreadful things we 
do to ourselves and to one another. We confess our own little sins of 
prejudice and rejection that we see written large in the crises of our 
times. O Lord of Hosts, be with us yet, lest we forget to love You and 
glorify You by respecting the wonder of each person's life. Through our 
Lord and Savior. Amen.

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