[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9921]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, Reverend James David Ford, D.D., offered the following 
prayer:
  We place before You, gracious God, the concerns of our hearts and 
souls. You have invited us to offer our prayers for ourselves and 
others and You have said that we can place our private petitions before 
You and seek Your peace. With the confidence of Your presence, O God, 
we utter our private feelings to You, expressing our hopes and fears, 
our joys and sorrows, and our faith for a new day. Bless our petitions 
and our prayers, O God, for it is in You that we place our trust. In 
Your name we pray. Amen.

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