[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 198 (Wednesday, December 13, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H14371]
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:
  In our best moments, O God, we are aware that Your Word points the 
way to the purposes of life--those standards of peace and justice and 
fairness and freedom that should be the heritage of all. Yet we know 
too that we are expected to use the abilities that we have received to 
conceive and design programs that bring righteousness to people and to 
extend the gifts of living to our communities and to our world. As You 
have entrusted to us this responsibility, O God, so give us the wisdom 
and the grace to be good messengers of Your Word and discerning 
stewards of all Your gifts. In Your name, we pray. Amen.

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