[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 58 (Monday, May 11, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H3017]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  The Reverend Douglas Tanner, Faith and Politics Institute, 
Washington, D.C., offered the following prayer.
  Let us pray:
  Almighty God, who created, sustains, and redeems us, we come before 
You today thinking we have seen enough rain for a while. We are quite 
ready for the warm, clear days we have come to expect in the Nation's 
Capital in May, with the sun shining on bright flowers and fresh 
foliage. Yet, that which we have learned to expect and that for which 
we ever more deeply yearn is not yet here. We must learn to live with 
the rain and we must wait.
  Teach us, we pray, to recognize the parallels to other areas of our 
lives and our life as a nation. Help us to see that which we can have 
now, that for which we must wait, and that which we could be doing in 
the meantime, especially where spiritual values intersect with public 
life.
  At the same time, remind us, in the words of Dr. King, that while the 
moral arc of the universe may be long, it bends toward justice, and 
rainy days will yield to brighter ones. Amen.

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