[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 18]
[House]
[Page 25664]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, Rev. James David Ford, D.D., offered the following 
prayer:
  Of all the virtues that we desire, we pray, O gracious God, for a 
grateful heart for the gifts of life and the opportunities of each day. 
For a nation where we can live in liberty and freedom, for colleagues 
and friends who encourage us, for mothers and fathers, sisters and 
brothers who love us and forgive us, for the blessings of faith and the 
gifts of hope, we offer this prayer of gratitude and thanksgiving. In 
Your name, O God, we humbly pray. Amen.

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