[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 96 (Friday, July 17, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H5741]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, Rev. James David Ford, D.D., offered the following 
prayer:
  Our hearts and thoughts and minds praise You, O God, for You have 
created a world of infinite possibilities and You have created us with 
hearts with which to love, thoughts with which to create, and minds 
with which to reason. Yet, may we ever be aware that our thoughts are 
not Your thoughts and our ideas are not Your ideas and our love not 
Yours.
  Give us wisdom so that we do not equate our limited faith with Your 
boundless blessings, nor our efforts at justice with Your perfect word. 
So with humility we pray that Your spirit will lift our spirits and 
guide us in the way of righteousness and goodwill.
  This is our earnest prayer. Amen.

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