[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Page 13129]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer:
  Gracious God, the width and depth and height of Your love is beyond 
our understanding but never beyond our acceptance. Out of love for us 
You offer Your faithfulness, guidance, and strength. Then You give us 
work to do to accomplish Your plans through us.
  So bless the Senators and all of us privileged to work for and with 
them with an acute awareness of our responsibility to You for what we 
do with the opportunities that You give us.
  In response, we consecrate our lives and our work to You; endue them 
with Your enabling power. We will cooperate with You, seeking Your 
guidance and obeying You. And we will anticipate Your interventions to 
help us when we need You to inspire our thinking, strengthen our 
resolve, and assure success in our efforts for Your glory.
  Today we ask Your special blessing for Jeri Thomson as she is sworn 
in as the Secretary of the Senate. Be with her, guide her, and direct 
her.
  Now Lord, bring on the day; we are ready. You are our Lord and 
Saviour. Amen.

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