[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 27673]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend James David Ford, D.D., offered the 
following prayer:
  With gratitude and praise, we are thankful that people of faith can 
more completely understand and respect each other. O gracious God, as 
You have created us as one people and breathed into our hearts the very 
essence of life, we celebrate our common calling to be people of faith 
and hope and love and to express that faith in those good works that 
strengthen the weak, provide food for the hungry, clothing to the needy 
and shelter to the homeless. While we appreciate our own traditions and 
heritage, we pray, O God, that we would be better stewards of the great 
gifts that we share together. Unite us, strengthen us and keep us all 
in Your grace, now and evermore. Amen.

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