[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Page 12910]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer:
  Gracious God, You are never reluctant to bless us with exactly what 
we need for each day's challenges and opportunities. Sometimes we are 
stingy receivers who find it difficult to open our tight-fisted grip on 
circumstances and receive the blessing that You have prepared. You know 
our needs before we ask You, but You wait to bless us until we ask for 
help. We come to You now honestly to confess our needs. Lord, we need 
Your inspiration for our thinking, Your love for our emotions. Your 
guidance for our wills, and Your strength for our bodies. We have 
learned that true peace and lasting serenity results from knowing that 
You have an abundant supply of resources to help us meet any trying 
situation, difficult person, or disturbing complexity, and so we say 
with the psalmist, ``Blessed be the Lord, who daily loads us with 
benefits.''--Psalm 68:19. Amen.

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