[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 144 (Monday, October 12, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H10563]
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: You have promised, O gracious God, to be with us wherever we 
are, in the towering heavens to the deepest oceans, from the moments of 
high exultation and in tragedy and great despair. We know that we 
cannot flee from Your presence and Your spirit will never leave us.
  This day we pray that Your spirit would encourage us when we need 
encouragement, that Your spirit would reconcile when we need 
reconciliation, and when we face anxiety, we pray that peace and hope 
will be Your gift to all Your people. This is our earnest prayer. Amen.

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