[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 125 (Friday, September 18, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H8037]
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:
  Teach us, gracious God, to use our words as symbols of truth and 
peace, and not as arrows of vengeance; remind us to use our thoughts as 
reservoirs of wisdom, and not as arenas of suspicion; instruct our 
minds to harbor thoughts of reconciliation and understanding, and not 
to hold rancor or resentment; train our hands to work together to 
demonstrate the unity of purpose and the solidarity of appreciation 
that binds us together. As You have created us in Your image, O God, so 
unite us in the bonds of respect one for the other. May the good 
feelings of our hearts find resonance with our words and may all our 
good words find relevance in our daily lives. In Your name we pray. 
Amen.

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