[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 76 (Thursday, June 16, 1994)]
[Senate]
[Page S]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Richard C. Halverson, D.D., offered the 
following prayer:
  Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.--Ephesians 
5:21.
  Gracious Father in Heaven, this exhortation by the apostle Paul is 
addressed to families and is the key to social order. Often it is the 
family which suffers most when father or mother are involved in 
leadership in public life. Tragically, the family and the home are at 
the bottom of priorities, and responsibilities, schedules, and 
involvement in life beyond the family take precedence.
  Living Father, deliver Your servants, Senators and staffs, from this 
tendency which is so destructive of social order in general. Grant 
husbands and wives grace to give each other priority, parents and 
children to take family responsibility as a matter of first importance.
  Give us grace, patient God, to submit ourselves, one to another--
spouse to spouse, child to child, child to parent, parent to child.
  In His name who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, we pray. Amen.

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