[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 14]
[Senate]
[Page 19822]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer:
  The Psalmist reminds us: ``The Lord is my light and my salvation; 
whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I 
be afraid?''
  Let us pray: Dear God, grant us spiritual, intellectual, and physical 
revitalization today. You provide boundless energy for the tense and 
tired. Your life force surges within us to give us enthusiasm for the 
work of this day and for the many challenges that we face. You lift out 
of our souls fear and panic, and in their place You put Your peace and 
power. Your love for us gives us a renewed desire to love and care for 
the people around us. Help us to give each other the quality of 
kindness and patience and encouragement that You have expressed to us. 
Saturate our souls with Your grace so that in spite of everything, joy 
might radiate on our faces and be expressed in our attitudes.
  Astound us again with the magnitude of responsibility You have given 
to this Senate to lead this great Nation at this crucial time. Thank 
You for the moral and spiritual leadership You have called the Senators 
to provide for America. And so grant them special strength today; fill 
them with Your spirit so that everything that they say and do might 
glorify You. We count it a great blessing to be alive today and to be 
equipped by You to do the work of government with inspired excellence. 
In the name of our Lord and Saviour. Amen.

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