[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 69 (Thursday, May 16, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H5185]
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 we have come and to whom we belong, we 
place before You in this our prayer, our ambitions and our hopes, our 
dreams and our desires, asking that You bless that which is good and 
faithful and correct and amend what is selfish or unkind. We have so 
many plans for our lives and ideas for what ought to be and yet many of 
our wishes are not accomplished and we feel discouraged. May Your good 
spirit, O God, that gives life to each new day, refresh us and inspire 
us to go forward knowing that Your power will bless us and make us 
whole. In Your name, we pray. Amen.

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