[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9144]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, Reverend James David Ford, D.D., offered the following 
prayer:
  As individuals we know how satisfying it is to affirm that You, O 
God, are the personal God who cares about our own needs and petitions. 
We know, too, how easily we can try to make Your nature so it fits with 
our own personal background or with our own particular Nation or with 
our own private interest. Yet, at our best moments we celebrate that 
You are God of all creation, that You are the judge of every people and 
Nation, and You have forgiveness and mercy available to every person. 
Help us, gracious God, to lift our vision of Your presence in our lives 
and of Your place and power in the universe so we see You as the 
creator and redeemer of all who seek Your grace. In Your name we pray. 
Amen.

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