[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3246]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, Reverend James David Ford, D.D., offered the following 
prayer:
  May Your blessing, O God, be with all who seek to serve in public 
service as elected leaders or as associates, in government service or 
in private endeavor. You have called each person, O gracious God, to 
use the talents and gifts that are theirs in ways that promote peace in 
our world and right attitudes and respect in our communities and 
neighborhoods. May not the words of understanding and reconciliation, 
of esteem and awareness, of freedom and liberty be the only words that 
we speak with our lips, but may those good words find home in our 
actions and in our hearts. May Your benediction, O God, be with those 
in public service and with every person now and evermore. Amen.

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