[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 7352]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, Reverend James David Ford, D.D., offered the following 
prayer:
  When we bow our heads for this moment of prayer it is our petition, 
almighty God, that our hearts and souls will focus on Your abundant and 
forgiving love to us and to all people. In a troubled world where 
violence seems to be so rampant, we pray that we will lift our eyes to 
see Your vision of hope, a vision where the good words of faith and 
reconciliation and understanding will not only be the words of our 
lips, but will be translated into deeds that comfort and sustain and 
strengthen our human community. This is our earnest prayer. Amen.

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