[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 13]
[Senate]
[Page 18669]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer:
  Almighty God, we cannot begin this day in the forward march of 
history without You. It is with Your permission that we are alive, by 
Your grace that we have been prepared for our work, by Your appointment 
that we are here, and by Your blessing that we are secure in Your gifts 
and the talents You have given us. Renew our bodies with health and 
strength to be the sedan chairs for our thinking brains. Open our inner 
eyes so that we can see things and people with Your perspective. Teach 
us new truth today. May we never be content with what we have learned 
or think we know. Set us free to soar with wings of joy and light. We 
trade in the spirit of self-importance for the spirit of self-
sacrifice, the need to appear great for the desire to make others 
great, the worry over our place in history with the certainty of Your 
place in our hearts. Restore the continuous flow of Your spirit through 
us as a mighty river.
  We thank You for the gift of this new day to work for Your glory and 
the good of America. You are our Lord and Saviour. Amen.

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