[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 53 (Tuesday, April 23, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H3665]
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 praise and adoration, with thanksgiving and gratitude, we offer 
our prayers to You, O God, and place our petitions before You. We pray 
for our world and our Nation, for our communities and the people of 
every background and tradition, for family and friends and for 
ourselves. We place before You, gracious God, our needs that are both 
great and small, those supplications that we hold in the secret places 
of our own hearts, asking that You would forgive us where we are weak 
or selfish, and strengthen us to do those good works that do justice 
and mercy. In Your name, we pray. Amen.

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