[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 10]
[Senate]
[Page 13648]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer:
  Gracious Father, we gladly respond to the admonitions of the 
psalmist: ``Commit your way to the Lord, trust also in Him and He shall 
bring it to pass, rest in the Lord and wait patiently for Him.''--Psalm 
37:5. We prayerfully accept the vital verbs of this advice and apply 
them to our faith today: commit, trust, rest, wait. You have shown us 
that when we commit to You our lives and our challenges, You go into 
action to bring about Your best for our lives. Commitment opens the 
flood gates of our minds and hearts to the flow of Your power to help 
with people or problems that concern us. We trust in Your reliable 
interventions to free us from anxiety. When we rest in Your everlasting 
arms, we experience spiritual resilience and refurbishment. All Your 
blessings are worth waiting for because nothing else gives us the 
strength and courage we really need. Thank You for Your faithful 
reliability. You, dear God, are our Lord and Saviour. Amen.

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