[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 50 (Friday, April 6, 2001)]
[Senate]
[Page S3637]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer:
  Dear God, our Creator, Sustainer, loving heavenly Father, it is 
awesome to us that You have chosen, called, and commissioned us to be 
Your blessed people. We thank You for the times we trusted You and 
received Your blessings of wisdom, strength, and determination. Now 
hear our longing to know and do Your will in the final negotiations on 
the budget. There is so much on which we do agree; show us how to come 
to creative compromise in the issues on which we do not agree.
  Give us clear heads and trusting hearts. May we earn a new confidence 
from the American people by the way we press on expeditiously and with 
excellence. Now we commit ourselves anew to You. With confidence we 
thank You in advance for a successful day of debate on the issues 
before us. When votes are counted may we neither be grim over defeat 
nor gloat over victory but pull together as Americans who put You and 
our Nation's good above all else. In Your all-powerful name. Amen.

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