[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 139 (Wednesday, October 7, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H9725]
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:
  May Your blessing, gracious God, dwell in the sacred places of life 
so that the words of our lips and the deeds of our hands are hallowed 
by Your good word and Your bountiful favor. As the psalmist has asked: 
``Where shall we go from thy spirit and whether shall we flee from thy 
presence?'' We acknowledge, O God, that Your spirit leads us and guides 
us from the mountains to the valleys, from the heavens to the deepest 
oceans. We are thankful that Your presence in our lives, O God, 
sanctifies the good work that we seek to do, and we are grateful that 
Your spirit never departs from us. In Your name we pray. Amen.

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