[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 63 (Wednesday, May 8, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H4533]
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:
  O, gracious God, from whom all blessings flow, bestow upon us the 
gifts of Your spirit. Where there is hunger, may people know the gifts 
of Your bounty; where there is loneliness, may there be a spirit of 
sharing and caring; where there is violence, may people know security; 
and where there is anxiety or pain, may every person know the 
confidence and the healing that Your word can give. May Your blessings, 
O God, that are new every day, be with us now and evermore. Amen.

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