[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 28 (Monday, March 16, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H]
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:
  Protect us, O gracious God, from our attempts to make You over in our 
image and our feeble efforts to take control of Your thought for our 
own purposes. At our best moments we know that we are created in Your 
image, that You are the sovereign God, our redeemer, our guiding 
spirit. We know too that we should wait patiently and humbly and look 
to You for guidance and judgment and it is to You that we should 
address our prayers and petitions. So we pray this day that You would 
offer Your blessing upon our lives and that we would hear Your voice 
and follow Your leading along life's way. This is our earnest prayer. 
Amen.

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