[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 74 (Tuesday, June 3, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H3217]
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:
  Let us pray.
  May Your blessings, gracious God, that brighten every place and give 
peace to every soul, be with all who seek Your presence and ask for 
Your favor. We seek to trust our own strength and yet we know we can be 
weak; we wish to endorse our own wisdom, and yet we know our ignorance; 
we say we pursue justice, and yet we can miss the mark. O loving God, 
as You have created us and nurtured us along life's way, so fill our 
hearts with those blessings that show us the way of truth and the 
meaning of life. This is our earnest prayer. Amen.

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