Fourth, council meeting of the city of Ponte gorda to order we please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and the invocation.

Restoration, our Heavenly Father, we pray O God today and every day we will use the abilities that you have given us in ways that benefit our voters being a measure of justice and mercy so that we can ask our forgiveness when we miss the mark and when we do know art act as the people would have dust be, may your precious spirit so touch our lives that the lives of every person, so that good works will flow from our hands.

Respect, for others will be our standard and kindly word will be our indication of our love for you. We ask you Lord to bless us, keep us to make your face shine upon us and to gracious. Unto us lift up your countenance upon us and give us peace both now and forevermore, amen.

United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.