[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 129 (Friday, August 4, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H8425]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplian, Rev. James David Ford, D.D., offered the following 
prayer:
  Your word, O God, proclaims the message of faith and hope and love 
and we long to experience that joy and peace. Yet often we wonder where 
that word of grace is amid the cluttered affairs of the world and the 
untidy arrangements of each day. Our prayer, gracious God, is that we 
will hear Your still small voice in spite of the clamor and noise of 
life and that we will experience the power of Your spirit in the depths 
of our own hearts. With gratefulness, O God, we believe that Your 
presence is greater than the din of the world and we are thankful that 
underneath are Your everlasting arms. In Your name, we pray. Amen.

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