[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 157 (Sunday, November 9, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H10423]
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:
  Let us pray using the words of St. Francis:
       Lord, make us instruments of Your peace.
       Where there is hatred, let us sow love;
       where there is injury, pardon;
       where there is discord, union;
       where there is doubt, faith;
       where there is despair, hope;
       where there is darkness, light;
       where there is sadness, joy.
       Grant that we may not so much seek
       to be consoled as to console;
       to be understood as to understand;
       to be loved as to love.
       For it is in giving that we receive;
       it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and
       it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

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