[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 54 (Wednesday, April 24, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H3733]
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:
  Help us to acknowledge, O gracious God, that Your creation extends 
from the east to the west, that there is no boundary to Your goodness 
and Your grace. Forgive us when we seek to make our action the center 
of all action and our concerns the focus of all humanity. Remind us 
that we ought not remake Your graces to look only like our face or make 
our concerns to be the center of Your entire creation. As You are the 
God of all so let us focus on Your blessings and Your will in every 
place and for every person so that justice will flow down as waters and 
righteousness like an everflowing stream. Amen.

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