[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 10 (Wednesday, February 11, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H387]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, Reverend James David Ford, D.D., offered the following 
prayer:
  With gratitude and humility, with praise and appreciation, we offer 
our words of thanksgiving, O God, and seek Your blessings upon us and 
what we do.
  Most earnestly this day we pray for those in this assembly to whom 
great responsibility has been given and from whom the critical 
decisions must come. For wisdom in the right use of power, we pray; for 
insight into the serious judgments that must be made for the welfare of 
all people, we pray; for discernment and knowledge in the search for 
peace in our world, we offer our petitions and our hopes.
  May Your abiding presence, O God, encourage us in all things, so that 
justice rolls down as water and righteousness like an ever-flowing 
stream. Amen.

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