[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 154 (Friday, December 18, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H11771]
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:
  Let us pray, using the words of Saint Francis: Lord make us 
instruments of Your peace.
  Where there is hatred let us sow love;
  where there is injury, pardon;
  where there is discord, union;
  where there is doubt, faith;
  where there is despair, hope;
  where there is darkness, light;
  where there is sadness, joy.
  Grant that we may not so much seek
  to be consoled as to console;
  to be understood as to understand;
  to be loved as to love.
  For it is in giving that we receive;
  it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and
  it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

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