[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 23804]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend James David Ford, D.D., offered the 
following prayer:
  O gracious God, we profess that You are the creator of the whole 
world and yet when we look at that world we see so much pain and 
suffering, wars and rumors of wars, and we become distressed. We affirm 
that You have created every person in Your image and yet in our 
communities we see alienation and estrangement one from another.
  Almighty God, teach us that before we can change the world or our 
communities we need to change our own hearts and our own attitudes so 
that Your spirit of faith and hope and love touches our souls and the 
work of our daily lives. This is our earnest prayer. Amen.

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