[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 132 (Monday, September 28, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H9090]
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:
  The scriptures exhort us to begin each day with joyful singing and 
with gladness of heart. The scriptures further proclaim that we should 
enter God's gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise. Yet, we 
know, O loving and gracious God, that for some people there is no 
singing a new song, nor is there thanksgiving or gladness. Remind each 
of us, O God, what we can do to alleviate the hurt of others or cause 
their pain to diminish. May the hungry find food, the lonely know 
friendship, and those who experience the ravages of war find peace and 
rest. And may Your blessing, O God, that surrounds us and gives us hope 
be with us and all Your people now and evermore. Amen.

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