[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 826]
[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, we remember with compassion and empathy those members 
of our community who have suffered great loss and have walked through 
the valley of the shadow of death.
  In our grief we look to Your spirit, O God, for healing and hope, for 
strength and meaning, for peace and assurance.
  May the bounty of Your love and the majesty of your whole creation 
ever remind us of the wonderful gifts of faith and hope and love and 
may these gifts continue to live in our hearts and minds now and 
evermore. This is our earnest prayer. Amen.

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