[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 17]
[Senate]
[Page 25400]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer:
  Gracious Father, our loving Lord, on this Sunday afternoon, we listen 
intently to Your assurance spoken through Jeremiah, ``I have loved you 
with an everlasting love; therefore with loving kindness I have drawn 
you.''--Jeremiah 31:3. We open this meeting of the Senate with these 
amazing words sounding in our souls. Can they be true? Your grace is 
indefatigable. It is magnetic. You draw us to Yourself and we receive 
strength and hope. We are secure in You and therefore can work with 
freedom and joy. We know Your Commandments are as irrevocable as Your 
love is irresistible. We have the strength to live Your absolutes for 
abundant life. And so we accept Elijah's challenge: ``Choose this day 
whom You will serve,'' and Jesus' mandate: ``Set your mind on God's 
kingdom above everything else!''--Matthew 6:33; NEV. In His powerful 
name. Amen.

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