[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 62 (Tuesday, April 4, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H4111]
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:
  Teach us, O God, to use our words as vehicles of communication and 
messengers of understanding so our conversations are truly heard by one 
another and there is an honest awareness of what is being said. Keep us 
from the easy platitudes that have the ring of truth, but do not 
communicate the realities that need to be discussed. And may the words 
we say with our lips, be believed in our own hearts, and all that we 
believe in our hearts, may we practice in our daily lives. Amen.


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