[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 131 (Tuesday, September 23, 2003)]
[House]
[Page H8408]
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:
  Lord God, You are pure act, yet ever-still. Give us wisdom to 
understand the meaning in the parable of the hurricane.
  Members of the House of Representatives, as so many Americans, have 
schedules of demanding motion. The swirl of activity may often leave 
best efforts shaken and priorities damaged. But may the rushing wind 
never lift them from the common ground or uproot deepest commitments.
  In their combined energy to address America's problems and be good 
legislators, may the velocity of their actions never leave victims 
around them. Rather in the midst of the daily hurricane may they find 
themselves in the hurricane's eye, calmly centered on You, the All-
Powerful and Source of Peace now and forever. Amen.

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