[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 81 (Tuesday, May 16, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H4964]
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                         [[Page H4964]] PRAYER

  The Chaplain Rev. James David Ford, D.D., offered the following 
prayer:
  We pray, O God, for the spiritual virtues that are the gift of Your 
hand and the promise of Your word. For faith to reach beyond the usual 
barriers of time and space, we offer our thanksgiving; for hope to see 
Your assurances and to claim Your promises, we offer our praise; for 
love to know fulfillment of all our endeavors and to relate to others 
in freedom and trust, we offer our adoration. May these gifts, gracious 
God, be on our lips and written in our hearts that we will be filled 
with Your gifts and enjoy Your peace that passes all human 
understanding. In Your name, we pray. Amen.

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