[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 27854]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend James David Ford, D.D., offered the 
following prayer:
  Let us pray using the words of St. 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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