[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Page 14411]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 Prayer

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The prayer will be offered today by the guest 
Chaplain, the Rev. Dr. Frederick W. Pfotenhauer, from Hilltop Lutheran 
Church of the Ascension, South Bend, IN.
  The guest Chaplain, offered the following prayer:
  Holy God, Wisdom Eternal, at the time Your Spirit breathed over the 
Earth and gave life and heart to all that is, You also called all 
people to be participants in Your holy actions. Enable each of us, 
especially those elected to this United States Senate and charged with 
being the voice of the people who inhabit this beloved land, to 
recognize our responsibility as conduits for these Your holy actions. 
Our prayer this morning, in voices lifted to You, resonates not only 
with the men, women, and children of our country but with the voice of 
humanity throughout the world and across the centuries. And so we, the 
family of the Senate, desiring to be filled anew this day with Your 
Spirit, Your wisdom, and Your purpose, plead with You to hear once more 
the prayer of Francis of Assisi.
  Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace; where there is hatred, let 
me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, 
faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; 
where there is sadness, joy.
  O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as 
to console, to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love.
  For it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are 
pardoned. And it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life. Amen.

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