[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 137 (Monday, October 6, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H8323]
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:
  Teach us, O gracious God, to translate our ideas and feelings and 
attitudes into actions that promote justice and mercy, and help us 
express the unity of ideas and feelings and attitudes in the lives we 
live every day. May good words become good deeds, may good thoughts 
become acts of kindness and generosity, and may good plans become the 
bedrock on which we build the qualities of righteousness and hope. 
Bless us, O God, this day and every day, we pray. Amen.

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