[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 3]
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             CONGRESSIONAL RECORD 

                United States
                 of America


March 11, 1999



           HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES--Thursday, March 11, 1999

  The House met at 10 a.m.
  The Chaplain, Rev. James David Ford, D.D., offered the following 
prayer:
  We pray, gracious God, that we are not judged by our attempts to do 
the works of justice or by our failures to be the people You would have 
us be, but rather by Your mercy and forgiveness and grace. We seek to 
do the right, but we also miss the mark; we wish to remember others 
with appreciation, but we can become too filled with pride to show 
gratitude; we can talk about the need for respect in our communities, 
but we can also speak words without any change in our deeds. May the 
words we say with our lips find meaning with what we believe in our 
hearts, and all that we believe in our hearts may we practice in our 
daily lives. In Your name we pray. Amen.

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