[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 13]
[Senate]
[Page 18846]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer:
  Gracious Lord, Your unfailing love and mercy continue, fresh as the 
new morning, as sure as the sunrise. You are our strength and again we 
put our hope in You.
  Lord, a packed agenda awaits Senators today. May their minds be 
power-packed with Your wisdom. Grant them physical stamina for the 
strain of busy schedules, the demands of decisions, the sapping strain 
of conflict, and the personal problems they think they must carry 
alone. Help them to claim Your promise, ``As the day so shall Your 
strength be.'' Pour Your spirit into the wells of their souls and give 
them supernatural resiliency and resourcefulness. May the Senators and 
all of us who work with and for them accept this new day as Your gift, 
entering into its challenges with eagerness and into its possibilities 
with a positive attitude. As we grow in Your joy help us to remind our 
faces to radiate it. You are our Lord and Saviour. Amen.

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