[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 33 (Monday, March 23, 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:
  We are grateful, O God, for the revelation of Your Word, a word that 
creates, endures, and makes us whole. We pray that we will not take 
that good Word and use it for our narrow purposes imagining that we are 
the only ones who know Your way and Your will. Open our hearts and 
minds so that we are judged by that word and then made free by its 
grace to serve You and the people of our communities and of our world. 
With thankfulness and praise we enter this new day comforted by Your 
abiding spirit and sustained by Your message of peace and goodwill. 
This is our earnest prayer. Amen.

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