[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 17]
[Senate]
[Page 25087]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer:
  Almighty God, ultimate judge of our lives, in this moment of quiet 
reflection, we hold up our motives for Your review. We want to be 
totally honest with You and with ourselves about what really motivates 
our decisions, words, and actions. Sometimes we want You to approve of 
our motives that we have not reviewed in light of Your righteousness, 
justice, and love. There are times when we are driven by self-serving 
motives that contradict our better nature. Most serious of all, we 
confess that sometimes our motives are dominated by secondary 
loyalties: Party prejudice blurs our vision; combative competition 
prompts manipulative methods; negative attitudes foster strained 
relationships. Together we ask You to purify our motives and refine 
them until they are in congruity with Your will and Your vision for 
this Senate in these pressured pre-election days. When we put You first 
in our lives, You bring us together with a miracle of unity we could 
not achieve by human methods alone. We thank You in advance for 
performing this miracle. Dear God, You are our Lord and Saviour. Amen.

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