[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 83 (Monday, June 27, 1994)]
[House]
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[Congressional Record: June 27, 1994]
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                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, Rev. James David Ford, D.D., offered the following 
prayer:
  We are reminded in the Scriptures that there is faith and hope and 
love and that the greatest of these is love. We pray, O gracious God, 
that those who live in a relationship of love will find their lives 
nourished by Your spirit and strengthened by Your presence. With the 
very real difficulties in our world and communities and the strains and 
tensions between people, we pray today that our hearts and minds will 
be raised above our own private interests to see how the gift of love 
can bind us together and connect us in ways that celebrate Your whole 
creation. May people receive the gifts of love and devotion, of respect 
and kindness so they will cherish each other in all the seasons of 
life. This is our earnest prayer. Amen.

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