[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14589]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 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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