[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 13]
[Senate]
[Page 18978]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer:
  Almighty God, we praise You for great Senators in each period of our 
Nation's history. And the Senate of the 106th Congress is certainly no 
exception. Thank you for our Senators who love You, seek Your best for 
our Nation, and are indefatigable in their efforts to lead with courage 
and vision. Over the years, You have impacted their consciences with 
Your Ten Commandments, Your truth, the guidance of Your Spirit, and 
vision for this Nation so clearly enabled by our founding fathers and 
mothers. Daily, refine their consciences. Purify them until they 
reflect the pure gold of Your character and Your priorities of 
righteousness, justice, and mercy. Then may their consciences guide 
their convictions, and may they always have the courage of these sacred 
convictions.
  What we pray for the Senators we ask for the entire Senate family. 
May we all be one in asking You to develop in us a conscience saturated 
by Your absolutes and shaped by Your authority. To this end, Senators 
and all staff join in rededicating our lives to glorify You by serving 
our Nation. Amen.

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