[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 16]
[House]
[Page 23730]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, Rev. James David Ford, D.D., offered the following 
prayer:
  O gracious God, in whom we live and move and have our being, we are 
grateful that Your blessings are over us and Your everlasting arms are 
beneath us. We know, O God, that Your spirit gives us strength when we 
are weak, chastens us when we miss the mark, forgives us and makes us 
whole. We are thankful that we can begin a new week energized by Your 
faithfulness and comforted by Your many mercies. Bless all Your people, 
O God, and may Your peace that passes all human understanding be with 
each one of us now and evermore. Amen.

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