[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 1]
[Senate]
[Page 904]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer.
  Loving Father, You have told us that Your perfect love casts out 
fear. So we open our minds to think about how much You love us and open 
our hearts to be filled with Your unlimited love. Remind us that 
nothing happens without Your permission and that You are able to use 
everything that happens to us to bring us closer to You. Therefore, we 
commit to You the anxieties in our personal and professional lives that 
cause fear of the future. So that we may work today with freedom from 
fear, we entrust to Your care our loved ones and their needs, our 
friends who face sickness and problems, our fellow workers in the 
Senate who need Your special care. We surrender our fears of the 
possible failure of our own plans and programs. Thank You for Your 
bracing assurance through Isaiah: ``Fear not . . . you are mine. When 
you pass through the waters, I will be with you and through the rivers, 
they shall not overflow you.''
  Now we press on to the work of the day with the assurance that Your 
perfect love will cast out fear all through the day. In the name of Him 
who never leaves nor forsakes us. Amen.

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