[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 195 (Wednesday, December 19, 2007)]
[House]
[Page H16837]
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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:
  Let the Nation be the land of promise and the citadel of freedom for 
the world. Let all the people rejoice to find the Lord their God in 
their midst.
  It is not only our children who live with dreams and take delight in 
this season filled with blessing. Lord, all Your people look to Your 
visitation which takes away the dark days and fills them with light. 
Older and wiser, understanding, Your full embrace of our humanity, we 
seek deeper truth and lasting gifts.
  Stir again within us the longing for family life secure in 
faithfulness. Give us brazen dignity in the work undertaken and 
achieved. Freed from the discontent of false expectations, bless us 
with the contentment that the reality of Your love reveals to us.
  Let the feast begin when heaven and Earth are united in the song ``A 
Child is born for us.'' ``The Word becomes flesh.'' Divine presence is 
found in our midst.
  Promises and oaths fulfilled, You prove Yourself our lasting hope, 
Lord. For You are the Lord our God and have become all in all, both now 
and forever.
  Amen.

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