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                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Margaret Grun Kibben, offered the 
following prayer:
  God of all creation, we lift up our eyes to the hills from whence our 
help does indeed come. You, O Lord, maker of Heaven and Earth who 
directs the stars in the sky and orders the change of the seasons, call 
us to behold with eyes of faith that winter is over.
  As flowers appear on the Earth, let us sing for joy in the mastery of 
Your design, for You make all things new.
  Make a way in the desert of despair, through the wilderness of worry. 
Bring forth streams of living water in the wastelands of unease. Quench 
the barrenness of our souls with the hope of Your salvation.
  Then enable us to set aside the former things that hold us to our 
past. Open our eyes to perceive the new things You are doing in our 
lives, even as You cause the beginning of life springing up around us.
  It is in Your eternal name we pray.
  Amen.

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