[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 2]
[Senate]
[Page 2168]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer:
  Almighty God, we praise You for not making life a courtroom without a 
judge. We don't have to judge ourselves with self-condemnation or 
others with harshness. You are the judge of our lives, the one to whom 
we must account for our behavior, character, and relationships. We 
expose our private and public lives to Your judgment. There are no 
secrets from You. We spread out before You the work of this Senate and 
ask You to show us what You require. This is Your nation. The Senators 
and all who work for and with them are here by divine appointment. Your 
justice and righteousness are our mandates. May we see ourselves 
honestly in the pure white light of Your truth.
  As we stand before You as our judge, we view You beside us with mercy 
and within us as perfect peace. Take our hands, dear Lord. Lead us on 
so that as this day closes and we say our prayers, we may have less to 
confess and more for which to give thanks. In Your righteous, all-
powerful name. Amen.

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