[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 106 (Tuesday, June 27, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S9109]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer
  The guest Chaplain, Commissioner Kenneth L. Hodder, national 
commander of the Salvation Army, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray:
  Lord, at the beginning of this new workday, we ask for an enlarged 
capacity to care for others.
  Help us to care--really care--for all those with whom we serve in 
this Chamber. Many of us are carrying personal and painful burdens of 
which others are unaware. So help us to work with each other with a 
gracious spirit of caring, one that reaches beyond the obvious and 
ministers to the hidden.
  And help us to care--really care--for this Nation of others. Surely 
people matter most. Assist us, then, as we struggle to balance our 
ideas with others' aspirations, our causes with others' concerns, and 
our passions with others' needs.
  We pledge to assist You in answering this prayer by our thinking, 
speaking, and doing this day.
  And it is in Your strong name that we ask these things and offer 
ourselves. Amen.


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