[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 31 (Friday, March 8, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H1987]
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:
  With thanksgiving for the bounteous gifts that touch our lives and 
for the grace and peace with which You enhance our very beings, we 
pause in their brief moment to laud Your name and offer gratitude for 
Your benevolence. May Your abiding spirit, O God, be with us and every 
person in the good times and bad, in our laughter and in our tears, in 
our joy and in our sorrows, in our public ambitions and in our private 
petitions, so that we will be Your people and be known as good stewards 
of the gift of life. Amen.

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