[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 115 (Monday, July 17, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H7015]
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:
  We speak about Your sovereignty, O God, and yet we often act as if 
You did not exist; our prayers of devotion call upon Your name and yet 
we think we can walk alone; our public petitions invoke Your grace and 
yet privately we do not care; our mouths call upon You with requests 
and appeals and yet our hearts and souls go their own way. Slow us 
down, O gracious God, and turn us to the truth to see You as the author 
of all creation, the redeemer of all that is good, the pilot that gives 
us direction and our guardian through all the perils of life. Bless us 
this day and every day, we pray. Amen.


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