[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 37 (Thursday, March 20, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H1189]
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:
  As we view our world, O God, we see the ironies of life and the 
incongruities of our human experience. There is the destruction of the 
floods and yet there is the beauty of a rainbow; there are the 
conflicts and the violence of war and the satisfaction of peace; there 
is the pain of sickness and the enjoyment of health. We pray, merciful 
God, that whatever our condition and whatever our need, we will know 
the assurance that Your grace is sufficient for whatever occurs and 
Your love for us never ends. In Your name, we pray. Amen.

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