[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 61 (Monday, April 3, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H4040]
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:
  The beauty and refreshment of this spring day reminds us of the need 
for renewal and restoration in our lives. This day is Your gift, O 
gracious God, a gift that reminds us of Your bountiful good will to us 
and to all people. We are sensitive to the fresh air of spring, we are 
alert to the green buds that now surround us, wherever we look our 
senses are filled with the resurgence of life and new possibilities of 
our growth in faith and hope and love. Fill us, we pray, with the joy 
and the blessing and the light of this day, that we will walk with Your 
favor and be the people You would have us be. In Your name, we pray, 
Amen.

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