[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 1]
[Senate]
[Page 519]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer:
  Blessed, omniscient God, You know all about us; our strengths and 
weaknesses, our hopes and hurts, our dreams and disappointments. We say 
with the psalmist, ``I commit my way to You, O Lord, and trust in You 
and You shall bring it to pass. I rest in You and wait patiently for 
You'' (paraphrase of Psalm 37:5,7).
  We confess that so often instead of waiting for You, we wait to 
commit our needs to You, clutching them in the icy grip of our 
reluctance to trust You. Help us to believe that what we commit to You 
will come to pass in Your way and in Your timing. We need the peace of 
mind and body that comes when we do Your will and leave the results to 
You.
  Bless the Senators with a great day because they, and all of us who 
work with them, have decided to rest in Your presence and wait 
patiently for You to work out what is best in all the challenges and 
opportunities of this day. Only what You bring to pass will last. You 
are our Lord and Saviour. Amen.

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