[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 160 (Thursday, November 6, 2003)]
[House]
[Page H10459]
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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:
  Lord God, by reflecting on our faith story in the past both as 
individuals and as a Nation, You help us in our discernment of present 
issues.
  By coming to understand who we truly are in relationship to You, 
Almighty God, and how we are drawn together as a people, You enable us 
to accept the light and the darkness within ourselves, the strong and 
the weak, the godly and the sinful, the wounded and the healthy.
  In taking possession of ourselves in the mirror of Your own word, we 
see Your mighty hand guiding our history.
  And Your dealings with us in the past help Congress today to lead us 
on the path to freedom.
  Our true freedom is the ability to truly become the people You have 
destined us to be, to determine the shape of things to come and find 
direction for our life now and forever. Amen.

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