[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 63 (Wednesday, May 14, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H2595]
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 You have surrounded us with family and 
colleagues who support us and encourage us. We are also aware that we 
are encompassed about with our communities from all over this land. O 
gracious God, from whom we receive our strength and to whom we belong, 
remind us every day that we do not live or serve alone nor do we have 
the abilities to run only our course, but are dependent upon others to 
truly know ourselves and to be Your faithful people. May we be ready to 
assist those about us just as they sustain us in our concerns. So be 
with us in our work, and may Your blessings be upon us and all Your 
people, now and evermore. Amen.

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