[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 105 (Wednesday, July 23, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H5579]
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 pray to You, O God, to reveal the high purposes of life, we 
also remind ourselves that You have given to us the responsibility to 
use our minds and hearts and hands to accomplish those high purposes. 
You have commanded that we follow the road to peace, so may we use our 
minds to discover those roads; You have told us to feed the hungry, so 
may we use our hands to till the soil and plant the crops; You have 
told us to be compassionate to all people, so may our hearts compel us 
to help heal the broken and strengthen our communities. We thank You, O 
God, for giving us the heavenly vision and we pray that we will realize 
that vision in our daily lives. This is our earnest prayer. Amen.

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