[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 4]
[Senate]
[Page 5781]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer:
  Gracious Father, thank You for this time of prayer when our minds and 
hearts can be enlarged to receive Your Spirit. You are the answer to 
our deepest need. More than any secondary gift You give, we long for 
the primary gift of Yourself, offered in profound love and acceptance. 
We have learned that when we abide in Your presence and are receptive 
to Your guidance, You inspire our minds with insight and wisdom, our 
hearts with resiliency and courage, and our bodies with vigor and 
vitality.
  In the quiet of this moment, we commit all our worries to You. We 
entrust to You our concerns over the people in our lives. Our desire is 
to give ourselves to the work of this day with freedom and joy. 
Especially give the Senators strength when they are weary, fresh vision 
when their wells run dry, and indefatigable hope when others become 
discouraged. In the name of our Lord. Amen.

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