[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 82 (Monday, June 22, 1998)]
[House]
[Pages H4883-H4884]
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 pray with the Psalmist who said, ``We give thanks to Thee, O God; 
we give thanks. We call on Thy name and recount Thy wondrous deeds.''
  We remember Your marvelous deeds, O God, and we celebrate the wonders 
of Your creation, for You have created this place where we live and 
learn, where there is work and play, where there is laughter and there 
are tears. You have given us a free will to choose the right over the 
wrong, the good over evil, and the honorable over the shameful.
  While we praise Your name, O God, for the majesty of what You have 
given us, so we pray that we will be good stewards of the opportunities 
we have

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to ``do justice, love mercy, and ever walk humbly with You.'' Amen.

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