[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 90 (Tuesday, June 24, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H4227]
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:
  Help us, O God, to experience anew the gift of Your blessing so that 
each hour becomes an hour of grace and each day becomes a day when our 
spirits are refreshed. Enable us, O gracious God, to put aside the 
burdens and difficulties and errors that have held our spirits captive 
and free us to be good custodians of the resources of our land and be 
faithful guardians of the worth of every person. With gratefulness and 
with thanksgiving, we offer these words of prayer. Amen.

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