[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10534]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend James David Ford, D.D., offered the 
following prayer:
  We pray, gracious God, that Your spirit of comfort and serenity will 
be with the neediest of people who turn to You with their life's 
concerns. We remember the refugees of the world and all those who 
suffer pain or hunger or fear for the days ahead. Remind us all, O God, 
that when the resources of the world are not with us, we can rely on 
Your grace. And when people must walk through the roads of danger and 
hostility, we earnestly pray that Your healing power and Your 
reconciling spirit will be with them whatever their need or trouble. O 
loving and eternal God, bless us and all Your people, now and evermore. 
Amen.

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