[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 2]
[Senate]
[Page 2638]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer:
  Gracious God, who knows our needs before we ask You for Your help, 
and has plans for us and our Nation ready to reveal to leaders who 
humble themselves and seek Your guidance, we praise You for the 
privilege of being alive and the delight of serving You.
  Give us a positive attitude for the challenges and problems of this 
day. Help us utilize Your divinely inspired gift of imagination to 
energize our vision of Your very best for the individuals, concerns, 
and complicated issues we must creatively confront today. Empower us to 
prayerfully picture Your solutions and direction and speak with the 
tone of Your articulated inspiration in our souls. Help us not to go it 
alone today on our own limited resources but draw on the inspiration of 
the vivid images You play on the screen of our inner eye of vision.
  Today we pray for all in the Senate family who are ill or recovering 
from surgery. Especially we pray for Senators Robert Graham and Mitch 
McConnell, two distinguished Senators who are recovering from heart 
surgeries and procedures. Infuse Your healing power into their bodies 
and give them strength and renewed resiliency. We thank You for these 
two great leaders.
  We expect great things from You today, dear God, and we will attempt 
great things for You throughout this new week. You are our Lord and 
Saviour. Amen.

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