[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 23 (Thursday, March 3, 2005)]
[House]
[Page H945]
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:
  Father of mercies and God of all consolation, You pursue us with 
untiring love. At certain moments of life, any one of us can be 
overshadowed by sickness or the death of a colleague, relative, or 
friend. Be our refuge and our strength, O Lord. Comfort all those who 
are lost in grief. Dispel the shadow of death with Your bright promise 
of new life. Lift Your people from their meandering questions of doubt 
and darkness; lift them into the peace and light that comes from Your 
presence.
  Confirm them in love which never dies but lives on and on. Amen.

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