[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 49 (Wednesday, April 17, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H3493]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  The Reverend Dr. Ronald F. Christian, Office of the Bishop, 
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Washington, DC, offered the 
following prayer:
  The heavens declare Your beauty, O God, and the firmament shows Your 
handiwork.
  We pray, O God, that we may all more quickly recognize and give 
thanks for the beauty that surrounds us, and we pray that we may more 
reverently receive Your gifts and offer our gratitude for them daily.
  For the hours of this day, we give You thanks. Help us, O God, to use 
each moment wisely so that neither sloth nor waste will occupy this 
time which will never be returned to us.
  Dispose our days and our deeds in Your peace, O God. Amen.

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