[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 73 (Tuesday, June 9, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H4247]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  The Reverend Kathleen Baskin, Greenland Hills United Methodist 
Church, Dallas, Texas, offered the following prayer:
  Let us pray:
  Most gracious one full of goodness and mercy, justice and 
righteousness, we know You ache for Your people to be one, as You are 
one with us. We pray today with a desperate longing for what is wrong 
in our lives and the life of our global community to be made right.
  Children gaze dispassionately upon their distended bellies, and 
youths strike out unmercifully against family, friends, peers, and we, 
entangled in our own chaotic lives, struggle fiercely to soothe the 
world's troubled soul. Instill in us all, most especially in Your 
faithful servants of this body, the vision, the passion, the commitment 
to move beyond self-interest and to move toward peace for all Your 
people.
  Thankful for Your confidence in us, we pray. Amen.

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