[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 146 (Tuesday, September 19, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H9142]
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 pray, O gracious God, for those things most immediate to us--for 
food and shelter, for friends and families, for honorable causes and 
noble deeds. We offer these petitions to You because You are our 
creator and You know each of us by name. Yet, above all else, and as 
our first act of faith, we speak our thanksgivings to You with 
gratitude in our hearts for Your loving gifts to each person. Teach us, 
O God, that before we ask, we ought to give thanks and praise and 
before we receive, we ought to open our lives to Your gracious 
presence. Amen.

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