[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 1]
[Senate]
[Page 628]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer:
  Omnipotent God, who hung the stars in their place, put planets in 
their orbits, and created humankind on this planet in this universe 
among universes, You are our Creator, Redeemer, and Lord. Everything 
within us rallies to express our praise. You have created us to love 
You, and when love for You is the motive of all we do, all of life is 
worshiped. Today we want our work to be our way of telling You how much 
we love You. What a privilege You have given us to serve You out of 
love in this Senate of this Nation You love and have blessed so 
bountifully!
  Therefore, we commit this day to glorify You so that even mundane 
duties will serve as a magnificent praise to You. Help us to love and 
care for the people with whom we work as if in them we meet You dressed 
in the manifold variety of human personalities. May our constant goal 
be to do our work with excellence as devotion to You. ``Oh Yahweh, our 
Adonai, how excellent is Your name in all the earth. For You have 
created us a little lower than Elohim, Yourself, and crowned us with 
glory and honor to assume dominion over the works of Your hands.''--
Psalm 8: 1, 5-6. Amen.

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