[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5059]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Reverend Dr. Ronald Christian, Lutheran Social Services, Fairfax, 
Virginia, offered the following prayer:
  O God, with these words and our thoughts, we acknowledge Your 
almighty power and recognize our ultimate dependence on Your great 
mercy.
  So we pray, deliver us in Your might this day from callous hearts so 
that we may be agents of your goodness and orderlies of Your 
compassion.
  Grant that from Your great storehouse of grace, we may receive the 
blessings of seasonal weather for the spring planting, comity for all 
communities in their life together, and joy in our pursuit of liberty 
and justice for all.
  Gracious God, dispose our days and our deeds in Your peace.

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