[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 127 (Monday, September 22, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H7603]
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:
  Give us we pray, O God, an exuberance for life and all its blessings. 
We know too well that the days are not only filled with goodness and 
gladness, but also the lives of people can be torn apart by illness and 
distress or violence. Whatever our condition and whatever our 
situation, or wherever we are or whatever we have done, we express our 
faith and conviction that You are our creator and redeemer and in You 
do we put our trust. So we pray for an enthusiasm for the new day and 
in a spirit of thanksgiving we laud and praise Your name, now and 
evermore. Amen.

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