[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 59 (Thursday, May 8, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H2353]
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:
  At our best moments, O God, when we think we have accomplished so 
much, we acknowledge our dependence on You. When we stand for our 
precepts and creeds, we realize we do not stand alone. When we are 
proud of our ideas or ideals, we admit that there have been those 
foundations that have girded and guided us throughout the years. We 
offer this prayer of thanksgiving, gracious God, for those people who, 
from the beginning of our lives, have encouraged and supported us in 
good times and bad. Bless them and us and keep us all in Your grace, 
now and evermore. Amen.

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