[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 15]
[Senate]
[Page 21223]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer:
  Gracious Father, who has given us life, bless us today in the work we 
will do. We praise You for work that can be done as an expression of 
our worship of You. We bring the meaning of our faith to our work 
rather than making our work the ultimate meaning of our lives. With 
that perspective, we seek to do everything to Your glory. We pray for 
mental alertness, emotional stability, and physical strength to achieve 
excellence in all that we do. Thank You for Your companionship in tasks 
great and small. It is awesome to contemplate that You who are in 
control of the universe have placed us in charge of what You want to 
accomplish through us.
  Fill us with Your joy and make us cheerful people who make others 
happier because we are with them. Make us a blessing and not a burden, 
a lift and not a load, a delight and not a drag. It's great to be 
alive! Help us make a difference because of the difference You have 
made in us. In the name of our Lord and Saviour. Amen.

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