[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 94 (Tuesday, June 29, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H5000]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


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                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend James David Ford, D.D., offered the 
following prayer:
  Give us, O gracious God, the full measure of Your blessings and on 
this day we pray for the gift of patience. We are busy with our lives 
and our work and we move quickly to seize the opportunity and run 
toward the mark. Yet we know too, O God, that some parts of life take 
time and need nurture and growth and cannot be hurried. We are grateful 
for those occasions when time is our friend and allows us the 
opportunity to experience wisdom and healing and growth. May our rush 
to accomplish never blind us from the fact that the gift of patience 
can be our strength and our friend, and a gift for all time. This is 
our earnest prayer. Amen.

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