[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 23 (Thursday, February 27, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H671]
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                        House of Representatives

  The House met at 9 a.m.
  The Chaplain, Rev. James David Ford, D.D., offered the following 
prayer:
  We pray, gracious God, that our ears would be open to hear Your word, 
that our hearts would reflect the warmth of Your spirit and that our 
hands would be ready to do the works of justice and mercy. May we not, 
O God, become so busy with our own goals that we miss the wonder and 
beauty and truth and glory of our common responsibility to use Your 
gifts for justice in our land and freedom in our world. Bless, O God, 
all those who labor for these good works, that the bounty of Your word 
may be known by all. Amen.

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