[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 15]
[Senate]
[Page 21535]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer:
  Dear God, thank You for another day to live for Your glory by serving 
our Nation. We accept the Psalmist's admonition as our motto for the 
day: ``Be of courage, and the Lord will strengthen your heart.''--Psalm 
31:24. Your fresh supply of strength gives us courage to live 
fearlessly today. You replenish our diminished strength with 
intellectual creativity, emotional stability, and physical resiliency. 
The tension of these frightening days on red alert have made us all 
much more alert to Your presence and power. The more we place our trust 
in You, the more the springs of tension within us are released and 
unwind until we feel a profound peace inside. As this workweek draws to 
a close, we thank You for Your protection and we renew our commitment 
to live by faith and not be beset by fear. Your perfect love casts out 
fear. We relinquish our worries to You and our anxiety is drained away. 
We say with the Psalmist, ``But as for me, I trust You, O Lord; I say, 
`You are my God. My times are in Your hand.' ''--Psalm 31:14-15a. Amen.

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