[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 94 (Friday, June 9, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H5755]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  The Reverend Douglas Tanner, Jr., Faith and Politics Institute of 
Washington, DC, offered the following prayer:
  Almighty God, Creator of us all: We come before You on a day when the 
heat and humidity outside this Chamber tell us that summer is here, 
even though officially it has yet to arrive. We also know it is summer 
by the departure today of this year's page class, and we thank You for 
their work in the seasons past.
  Grant us the capacity to discern with equal clarity the seasons of 
our own lives: the time to sow, the time to cultivate, the time to 
reap, the time to lie fallow. Help us to know when to water, and when 
to weed.
  Help us to know good seed from bad as we choose what to sow in the 
fields of public policy. Enable our public leaders to appeal to what is 
noble in our nature, to our human dignity, to our sense of fairness, to 
our compassion, to our willingness to sacrifice, to our ability to 
forgive. Strengthen us to follow those who will lead. Amen.


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