[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Page 12575]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer:
  Almighty God, help us to see the invisible movement of Your Spirit in 
people and in events. Beyond our everyday world of ongoing 
responsibilities and the march of secular history with its sinister and 
frightening possibilities, You call us to another world, a world of 
suprasensible reality which is the mainspring of the universe, the 
environment of everyday existence and our very life and strength at 
this moment. Help us to know that You are present, are working Your 
purposes out, and have plans for us. Give us eyes to see Your invisible 
presence working through people, arranging details, solving 
complexities, and bringing good out of whatever difficulties we commit 
to You.
  We begin this week on Flag Day affirming our loyalty to You, dear 
God, and to our great Nation. Grant the Senators eyes to see You as the 
unseen but ever-present Sovereign. Then help them to claim Your 
promise: ``Call to me, and I will answer you and show you great and 
mighty things which you do not know'' (Jer. 33:3). Amen.

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