[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 148 (Thursday, September 21, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H9365]
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:
  Let us pray using the words of St. Francis.
  Lord, make us instruments of Your peace. Where there is hatred, let 
us sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, 
union; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where 
there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy.
  Grant that we may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to 
be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love.
  For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are 
pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

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