[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 246]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend James David Ford, D.D., offered the 
following prayer:
  Our hearts and hopes and prayers are with all those who face any 
uncertainty for the day or who must meet the predicaments that each day 
presents. Where there is this uncertainty, we pray, O gracious God, 
that You would grant faith and trust; where there are the dilemmas of 
decisions or the compromises that shade our views, we pray for wisdom. 
O God, our help in ages past and our hope for years to come, lead us 
all in the way of peace and understanding and grant us confidence in 
Your love to us and to all people. This is our earnest prayer. Amen.

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