[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2962]
[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 prayer this day, gracious God, is for a renewed sense of vision 
in our lives and in our work. Enable us to be involved not only with 
our own objectives, but give us a vision of the goals of our own 
institution, of those values and ideals that bind us together as one 
people.
  Let us show regard for one another and so honor each other; let us 
respect each other so we can be instruments of healing in a broken 
world; let us be good stewards of the grand resources of our blessed 
Nation, and let us be reconciled together in appreciation one for 
another.
  May honor and healing and reconciliation and respect mark our lives 
and work now and evermore. Amen.

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