[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 67 (Tuesday, May 20, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H2932]
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 offer these words of prayer, gracious God, and we do so with 
humility and with grateful hearts. We place before You our own special 
petitions, asking that You would bless us when we need encouraging and 
give us vision for a new day. It is right to place these supplications 
before You, knowing that You have created each person in Your image and 
have given the gift of life and the opportunity for service to all. So 
we pray that You would breathe into our very souls the breath of 
forgiveness and the faith and hope and love with which to meet the 
responsibilities of the day. In Your name we pray. Amen.

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