[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 86 (Thursday, June 19, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H3925]
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 pray, gracious God, that You would give to us and all people the 
amazing grace that makes us whole and makes us free. You have created 
us and blessed us with all those gifts that give purpose and value and 
You have marked us with your image. We know too that if we live in Your 
spirit and abide in Your presence, we will receive that peace that the 
world cannot give and obtain that resolve that allows us to be Your 
people and do the works of justice. This is our earnest prayer. Amen.

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