[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 17]
[Senate]
[Page 24254]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer:
  Almighty God, together we salute You as Lord of our lives, the one to 
whom we all must report, the only one we ultimately need to please, and 
the one who is the final judge of our leadership. We pray that our 
shared loyalty to You as our sovereign Lord will draw us closer to one 
another in the bond of service to our Nation. It is in fellowship with 
You that we find one another. Whenever we are divided in our 
differences over secondary issues, remind us of our oneness on 
essential issues: our accountability to You, our commitment to Your 
Commandments, our dedication to Your justice and mercy, our patriotism 
for our Nation, and our prayer that, through our efforts, You will 
provide Your best for our Nation. And there is something else, Lord: We 
all admit our total dependence on Your presence to give us strength and 
courage. So with one mind and a shared commitment, we humbly fall on 
the knees of our hearts and ask that You bless us and keep us, make 
Your face shine upon us, lift up Your countenance before us, and grant 
us Your peace. Amen.

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