[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 13]
[Senate]
[Page 18179]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer:
  The Psalmist draws our minds and hearts to God:
  O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is Your name in all the earth. What 
is man that You are mindful of him and the son of man that You visit 
him? You have created him a little lower than the angels and crowned 
him with glory and honor. You have given him dominion over the work of 
Your hands.--Psalm 8.
  Gracious God, ultimate Sovereign of this Nation and Lord of our 
lives, we are stunned again by Your majesty and the magnitude of the 
delegated dominion You have entrusted to us. We respond with awe and 
wonder and with renewed commitment to be servant leaders. In a culture 
that often denies Your sovereignty and worships at the throne of the 
perpendicular pronoun, help us to exemplify the greatness of 
servanthood. You have given us a life full of opportunities to serve, 
freed us from self-serving aggrandizement, and enabled us to live at 
full potential for Your glory. We humble ourselves before You and 
acknowledge that we could not breathe a breath, think a thought, make a 
sound decision, or press on to excellence without Your power. By Your 
appointment we are here doing the work You have given us to do, called 
to serve this great Nation. You alone are the one we seek to please. We 
have been blessed to be a blessing. Grant us grace and courage to give 
ourselves away to You and to others with whom we are privileged to work 
in the great Senate family. In Your holy name, Amen.

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