[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 17747]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend James David Ford, D.D., offered the 
following prayer:
  We pray, almighty God, that we will have the maturity and the 
spiritual insight to realize that Your goodness and Your blessings come 
to us not because of our righteousness, but because of Your grace to 
all people. Give us, O God, a greater sense of humility in our minds 
and a wonderful simplicity of faith so that we see more clearly the 
wonder and the majesty and the grandeur of Your gifts to us. For Your 
love to us and Your reconciling spirit, for Your peace that passes all 
human understanding, we offer this prayer of thanksgiving and praise. 
Amen.

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