[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 6]
[Senate]
[Page 7912]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The guest Chaplain, Dr. Thomas A. Erickson, Valley Presbyterian 
Church, Scottsdale, AZ, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray.
  Gracious and ever-living God, You promised through the Psalmist, ``I 
will instruct you and teach you the way you should go, I will counsel 
you with my eye upon you.''--Psalm 32:8. In response, we open our minds 
to You, asking that in all the business before us we may clearly see 
Your will and courageously do Your work.
  O God, when world events threaten to crush our hope, reassure us that 
peace is possible, for Your will shall yet be done in all the Earth. 
Then help us to do what we can, individually and together, to achieve 
that peace for all people everywhere.
  At the end of this day, let every Senator know, let every staff 
member and aide know, that they have done their duty to You, to their 
Nation, and to one another. Give them satisfaction in knowing that they 
have moved our Nation a step further in its unrelenting quest to be 
``one Nation under God, with liberty and justice for all.'' Amen.

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