[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 20031]
[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 are grateful, O God, that You have created us with opportunities 
to be the people You would have us be. We know that we have been given 
the choices of life to take the paths of service to others, to express 
our love to family and friends, to do the works of justice. Impress 
upon us, O gracious God, how our small acts of goodness and kindness, 
combined in unity with others, can make our communities and our world 
places of understanding and of peace.
  In Your name we pray. Amen.

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