[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Page 12229]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer:
  This morning, Lord, we ask You for a very special gift. This gift is 
one we know You want to give. It is for the awareness of the power of 
prayer for each other. You have told us in the Scriptures that there 
are blessings You grant only when we care enough to pray for each 
other. We also know that our attitudes are changed when we pray for 
each other. We listen better and conflicts are resolved. We discover 
answers to problems together because prayer has made it easier to work 
out solutions.
  Also, when we pray for each other, You affirm our mutual caring by 
releasing supernatural power. Working together becomes more pleasant 
and more productive. Knowing this, we make a renewed commitment to pray 
for the people around us, those with whom we disagree politically, and 
those with whom we sometimes find it difficult to work. If we pledge 
that we are one Nation under God, help us to exemplify to our Nation 
what it means to be one Senate family with unity in diversity, held 
together with the bonds of loyalty to You and our Nation, in consistent 
daily prayer for Your best for each other. In the name of our Lord. 
Amen.

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