[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 75 (Wednesday, June 4, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H3277]
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 observe our communities and world, O God, we see all the 
contrasts that reflect the good and the profane, the generous and the 
outrageous, the acts of charity and the feelings of enmity. We pray, 
gracious God, that whatever our situation, whatever our responsibility, 
whatever our opportunity, we will rely on Your providence to show us 
the way of mercy and of justice. As we cannot control all the events 
that touch our lives, yet we can rely on those gifts of grace that You 
freely give to us, those blessings that sustain us and give us hope for 
each new day. This is our earnest prayer. Amen.

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