[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 100 (Tuesday, July 15, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H5191]
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:
  For gifts and grace, for hope and help, for all the marvelous 
promises that surround us day by day, we offer these words, O God, of 
thanksgiving and gratitude. We know that we are not worthy of Your 
blessings, O God, and we too often fail and miss the mark. Yet, in Your 
mercy the spirit of reconciliation and peace never leaves us, but 
continues to encourage us and points us in the way of truth. For this 
blessing and all Your guidance in our daily lives, we offer this 
prayer. Amen.

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