[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 30 (Tuesday, March 11, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H818]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  The Reverend Dr. Ronald F. Christian, Evangelical Lutheran Church of 
America, Washington, DC, offered the following prayer:
  Almighty God, we acknowledge that You have made us in Your own image, 
so we pray: Look with love and compassion on Your whole human family. 
Take away from any of us the arrogance we may have for our own 
importance and significance. Dissolve any hatred that infects our 
hearts and inflicts our spirits. Break down the walls that may separate 
us one from the other. And, through our struggle and confusion, use our 
work to bring about Your purpose, so that in Your good time and season 
our work and our efforts and our decisions may serve the common good of 
all Your people, and in quiet harmony may they promote Your will and 
goodness. Amen.

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