[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 100 (Tuesday, July 9, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H7120]
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:
  We are grateful, O God, that our prayers can express the essential 
emotions and ideas of the human spirit, that we are free to call upon 
You in all the moments of life--for better or worse, for richer or 
poorer, in sickness and in health. And so we call upon You this day 
from the secret places of our own hearts asking that You would bless us 
when we need blessing and forgive us when we need forgiving. Above all 
else, we pray for Your presence in our lives day by day and for Your 
spirit that nurtures us with the good graces of life. Amen.

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