[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 81 (Friday, June 19, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H4841]
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:
  With gratefulness and joy we celebrate that Your grace, O God, is 
sufficient for all our needs and available to us in all the reaches of 
our lives. If we live with the good fortune of life, You are there, and 
if we suffer and know anguish, You are there. Whether in the heights of 
happiness or in the depths of despair, whether at the end of the day or 
at the morning light, in youth or age, in all the seasons of our 
existence, we can be confident that Your spirit leads us and Your grace 
accepts us, whatever we have been and wherever we are.
  For all these great gifts, O God, we offer our praise and 
thanksgiving. Amen.

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