[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 15]
[Senate]
[Page 22438]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer:
  Dear God, we praise You for Your faithfulness. We say with Jeremiah, 
``The Lord's mercies are new every morning; great is Your 
faithfulness.''--Lamentations 3:23.
  We are profoundly moved by Your merciful kindness to us. You never 
give up on us. When we forget You, You infuse our lives with reminders 
of Your consistent love; when we resist Your guidance, You find new 
ways to get through to us; when hubris becomes a habit, You break the 
bond of self-sufficiency by showing us what we could accomplish with 
Your supernatural strength.
  Lord we confess our need for humility. It is a combination of 
gratitude, honesty, and courage. We admit that all that we have and are 
is Your gift; we honestly face the distance between what we are and 
what we could be in our relationships and responsibilities; we need 
courage to blow the cap off of our reservations and live the full 
potential according to Your expectations.
  Here we are at the beginning of a crucial day in the life of this 
Senate. As we rush into the schedule, we meet You at the pass. We don't 
need to spin to win with You. You know all about us. And so we simply 
ask You to take our minds and focus our intelligence on what is best 
for America, to take our wills and guide us to choose what is righteous 
and just, and to take our voices and speak Your truth through them. You 
are our Lord and Saviour. Amen.

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