[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 1]
[Senate]
[Page 149]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer:
  Dear God, You have promised to keep us in perfect peace if we would 
allow You to stay our minds on You. We join with millions of 
Christians, Jews, Muslims, and Buddhists, in unity on this Daylong 
Prayer for Peace initiated by the Pope. In the midst of the treachery 
of worldwide terrorism, the conflict in the Middle East, the tensions 
between nations, the turmoil of race relations in every nation, we cry 
out to You for peace in our time. We ask You to instigate in the 
leaders of nations the desire for peace, to inspire all warring peoples 
with the yearning for peace, and to imbue in all humankind the longing 
to negotiate peace with justice. Bless America in our peacemaking and 
peacekeeping responsibilities throughout the world. We claim the 
promise through Isaiah that You ``. . . shall judge between the 
nations, and rebuke many people; they shall beat their swords into 
plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift 
up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.''--
(Isaiah 2:4). Lord, we pray for peace! Amen.

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