[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 124 (Wednesday, September 17, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H7367]
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:
  Through all the trials and tumult that divide the human family and in 
all the joys and celebrations that bring people together, Your Word of 
love, O God, is a beacon of hope and a source of comfort and solace. 
For better or worse, for richer or poorer, and in all the circumstances 
of life, Your Word unites us and makes us whole. Because of Your 
everlasting gifts to us, O God, we are grateful for this new day and 
move forward in the faith and in the hope that You have given to us. In 
Your name we pray. Amen.

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