[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Page 16283]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer:
  Almighty God, take charge of the control centers of our brains. Think 
Your thoughts through us and send to our nervous systems the pure 
signals of Your peace, power, and patience. Give us minds responsive to 
Your guidance.
  Take charge of our tongues so that we may speak truth with clarity, 
without rancor or anger. May our debates be efforts to reach agreement 
rather than simply to win arguments. Help us to think of each other as 
fellow Americans seeking Your best for our Nation, rather than enemy 
parties seeking to defeat each other. Make us channels of Your grace to 
others. May we respond to Your nudges to communicate affirmation and 
encouragement.
  Help us to catch the drumbeat of Your direction and march to the 
cadence of Your guidance. Here are our lives. Inspire them with Your 
calming Spirit, strengthen them with Your powerful presence, and imbue 
them with Your gift of faith to trust You to bring unity into our 
diversity. In our Lord's name. Amen.

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