[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 1189]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend James David Ford, D.D., offered the 
following prayer:
  O gracious God, whose mercies are without number and whose spiritual 
nourishment is available without limit, we place before You our 
petitions and prayers. May our hearts be more sensitive to the needs of 
the poorest among us, the hungry and the homeless, those abandoned and 
those alone. May we do what we can to share the wonderful blessings of 
liberty with those who have no freedom or who suffer from the ravages 
of conflict.
  May Your good spirit, O God, that spirit that brought the world into 
being and gives light and hope to the world, be and abide with us and 
all people, now and evermore. Amen.

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