[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 99 (Wednesday, July 22, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H6073]
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:
  We are grateful, O God, for the families from which we have been 
born, the communities where we have lived, and the Nation whose 
heritage we call our own. And yet You have lifted our vision, gracious 
God, to include all the conditions and concerns of our world, for You 
have created every person, endowed them with opportunities and 
responsibilities, and united us all with Your providence and Your 
grace. As we better understand the scope of Your creation, O God, may 
we also better understand the spiritual solidarity that You have 
already given us so together with people of every Nation, we will work 
for justice and for peace, world without end. Amen.

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