[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 3]
[Senate]
[Page 3392]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer:
  Dear God, today we want to live out the true meaning of the motto of 
our Nation, ``In God We Trust.'' All through this day we will live the 
psalmist's admonition for successful living: ``Commit your way to the 
Lord, trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass.''--Psalm 37:5. 
We claim the meaning of the word ``commit'' in Hebrew as ``to roll 
over.'' We roll over our burdens from our shoulders onto Your mighty 
shoulders.
  We begin this day very conscious of the burdens we have tried to 
carry ourselves: personal needs, physical problems, concerns for people 
we love, friends about whom we worry, plus all the responsibilities of 
work, and our unfinished projects and proposals. We take all of these 
and roll them over onto You. We trust You to give us strength to work 
today free of fretting frustration. We accept Your invitation through 
Peter: ``Let God have all your worries and cares, for He is always 
thinking about you and watching everything that concerns you.''--1 
Peter 5:7, Living Bible.
  Thank You, that You have lightened our load of what we could not 
carry alone and strengthened our backs for what You call us to carry 
with Your help. Amen.

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