[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 8 (Wednesday, February 6, 2002)]
[House]
[Page H143]
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House of Representatives

  The House met at 10 a.m.
  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  O Lord, our guardian and our refuge, in times of war it is difficult 
to pray. When living under the threat of attack, anxieties and fear can 
steal Your abiding presence.
  At such times, there is so much to pray about. To lift up to You all 
the names of the victims of war is in itself a heavy task. To remember 
them in prayer keeps our love alive and unveils our mourning until we 
see them in Your eternal presence. Your spirit of prayer moves us to 
strengthen our compassion for all those orphaned and widowed by war. We 
pray for all who serve in the Armed Forces, those servants of security 
and defenders of freedom around the world. We pray for their safety and 
their families.
  At such times, all leaders in our government, especially these 
Members of Congress, are in need of Your supreme guidance, Lord. May 
leaders of all nations be with them as they search for the ways to 
secure peace, to protect homelands and reconstruct those places torn 
apart by war's violence.
  Lord, in moments like now when it is difficult to pray, perhaps it is 
because we cannot see Your face, for You are the author of life and 
love, now and forever. Amen.

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