[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 8 (Tuesday, January 19, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H247]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  The House met at 2 p.m.
  The Chaplain, Rev. James David Ford, D.D., offered the following 
prayer:
  We and all the generations before us have found assurance and 
strength in the Book of Psalms and so we are bold to pray: We give 
thanks to the Lord, for He is good, for His steadfast love endures 
forever. We give thanks to the God of gods, for His steadfast love 
endures forever. O let us give thanks to the Lord of lords, for His 
steadfast love endures forever.
  We pray, gracious God, that You would lift our eyes and hearts and 
minds so that we would see Your steadfast love in all we do. And help 
us to translate that abiding grace so that we relate to other people 
with deeds of justice and with hearts of mercy. This is our earnest 
Prayer. Amen.

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