[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 8]
[Senate]
[Page 10265]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer:
  God is good all the time; all the time God is good! We say with the 
psalmist, ``I would have lost heart, unless I had believed that I would 
see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.''--Psalm 27:13.
  What do we mean when we affirm that You are good? You have taught us, 
dear God, that Your goodness is Your impeccable consistency. We always 
can depend on You to be the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. You do 
not play favorites; You treat all Your children the same. It is only 
humankind that withholds Your blessings of justice, mercy, and plenty 
from some of Your people. Or we tolerate customs, laws, or social 
prejudices that block Your goodness being offered to all.
  If we say with the psalmist, ``Blessed be the Lord, who daily loads 
us with benefits, the God of our salvation!''--Psalm 68:19, then help 
us, generous Lord, to be to others as kind, caring, and forgiving, just 
as you have been to us. May it be said of us, ``He/she is good all the 
time!'' Amen.

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