[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 29 (Wednesday, March 7, 2001)]
[House]
[Page H653]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Isaias warns us, O Lord, unless we acknowledge You as Lord with 
living faith and lasting reverence we go adrift.
  You have raised us and reared us; yet we have disowned You. Our house 
pets know their owners; our appetites know where to be fed; yet we do 
not know where to turn unless we truly belong to You.
  As Your people, when we hear You call us: ``a sinful nation, a people 
laden with wickedness, an evil race, corrupt children,'' shall we run 
away from You? Or toward You?
  Is it You we fear and cannot face or is it the truth about ourselves 
and our children? Strengthen us that we may be drawn into the truth by 
You now and forever. Amen.

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