[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 50 (Wednesday, April 29, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H2441]
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:
  Our prayer, gracious God, is that Your mercy will be overwhelming and 
Your grace sufficient for our every need. With our humble petitions and 
with sincere hearts, we open our very souls to Your spirit and ask that 
we be filled with Your gifts of truth, honor, joy, perseverance and 
patience. We admit that when we become too involved in the details of 
the day, our eyes do not always see the width and breadth and height of 
our responsibility, a responsibility to express the unity and the 
wholeness of Your creation. From Your hand, O God, we have been 
created, and we pray that we will express that unity now and evermore. 
Amen.

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