[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 12 (Thursday, February 10, 2000)]
[House]
[Page H279]
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House of Representatives

  The House met at 10 a.m.
  The Chaplain, the Reverend James David Ford, D.D., offered the 
following prayer:
  We confess, O gracious God, that we sometimes use prayer as a cover 
to plead our own case instead of listening to Your still small voice 
calling for repentance.
  We confess that we offer our petitions to You before we offer our 
thanksgivings for the gifts that we have already received.
  We confess, O God, that we diminish our prayers when we ask You to do 
what we should do for ourselves. Help us, eternal God, to see through 
our own agendas and become filled with the majesty and wonder and grace 
of Your abiding love to us and to all people.
  This is our earnest prayer. Amen.

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