[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Page 15543]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer:
  Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised and His greatness is 
unsearchable. I will meditate on the glorious splendor of Your 
majesty.--Psalm 145: 3,5.
  Let us pray:
  We come humbly and gratefully to draw from Your divine intelligence 
what we need for today's deliberations and decisions. We thank You for 
the women and men of this Senate and their staffs who support their 
work. Help them humbly to ask for Your perspective on perplexities and 
then receive Your direction. Give them new vision, innovative 
solutions, and fresh enthusiasm. We commit this day to love and serve 
You with our minds. Today, when votes are counted on crucial decisions, 
help them neither to relish victory nor nurse discouragement in defeat 
but do everything to maintain the bond of unity in the midst of 
differences and then move forward. This we pray in the Name of the 
Prince of Peace who called us to be peacemakers. Amen.

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