[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 43 (Wednesday, March 8, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S3641]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The guest Chaplain, the Reverend Dr. Neal T. Jones, Columbia Baptist 
Church, Falls Church, VA, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray:
  Our Father in Heaven, we thank You that history is a human record of 
which You are the superintendent. We are the infinitesimal creatures of 
a few historical moments. We thank You for endowing these temporal 
moments with eternal significance. We, therefore, ask for wisdom and 
understanding of history in the ordering of our times.
  By Your wisdom, transport us to that eternal expanse before the 
beginning. By Your wisdom, take us to the other side of the end. By 
Your wisdom, take us to the heart of reality where time and eternity 
merge. Finally, by Your wisdom, wrap us in the sufficiency of Your 
knowledge and love.
  By grace, we promise to fill our lives with more than the momentary 
and more of the eternal--in order to praise the One who is everything 
and benefit our constituents in time.
  In Jesus' name. Amen.
  

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