[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 18 (Friday, February 25, 1994)]
[House]
[Page H]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Richard C. Halverson, D.D., offered the 
following prayer:
  Let us pray:
  To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under 
the heaven.--Ecclesiastes 3:1.
  Eternal God, patient Heavenly Father, help us to appreciate the 
precious resource of time. Help us to see that no one has more time 
than another. The Senator has the same amount of time as the child. 
Give us the insight that to ``kill time'' is murder--that the only way 
to save time is to spend it wisely. We cannot store it up; when passed, 
it is gone forever. We know that delay, for its own sake, is not 
virtuous--only dilatory; but we also know that, ``Haste makes waste.'' 
Save us from the abuse of time.
  We thank Thee, Father, for the response of the Vermont farmer who, 
when asked why he did not hurry, replied, ``I figure that I pass up 
more than I catch up with.'' And as someone else said, ``The hurrier I 
go, the behinder I get.''
  God of eternity, help us to make time our servant rather than our 
master.
  We pray in His name who was never in a hurry but used time to the 
glory of God. Amen.

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