[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 37 (Friday, March 27, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H1649]
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 respond to Your love, gracious God, with words of gratitude, 
thoughts of praise, an attitude of thanksgiving, and hearts full of 
appreciation for Your marvelous gifts to us and to all people. Above 
all else we have been blessed with the gift of life and with that gift 
the great opportunities to appreciate our families, our friends and our 
colleagues. You have given us a moment to live in this turbulent world 
with times of majestic nobility and times of despair. Help us, O God, 
so to live our lives that we will not be satisfied with the darkness 
but delight in Your light and in Your will. In Your name we pray. Amen.

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