[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 49 (Thursday, March 16, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H3279]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER
  The Chaplain, Rev. James David Ford, D.D., offered the following 
prayer:
  We are grateful, O God, for those blessings that make life meaningful 
and cause us to be the people You would have us be. Especially do we 
offer our thanksgivings for faith and hope and love which are Your 
gifts to us and without which we do not reflect Your grace or Your 
divine image. For faith--to see more clearly Your purposes for us; for 
hope--to rise above the concerns of the day with trust in Your 
providence; for love--to be reconciled with others in respect and with 
the knowledge that we are all Your people blessed by Your spirit and 
encouraged by Your presence. In Your name, we pray. Amen.

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