[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 38 (Thursday, March 6, 2008)]
[House]
[Page H1343]
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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:
  Loving God, ever attentive to human need and openness, for some 
believers, You are distant and to be feared, only to be encountered in 
some mysterious happening or at the end of life. To other believers, 
Lord, You are ever present, sustaining all life, to be discovered just 
beneath the surface of each ordinary day. Perhaps it is Your love 
itself that arranges for us to experience at that precise moment what 
is the best and holiest thing that could ever happen to us.
  Since the art of timing seems so important to us in the teaching of 
our young people, in the exercise of the free market, as well as in 
love and politics, perhaps it is best for us, too, to leave the timing 
of Your self-revelation also in Your hands.
  Your wisdom in knowing us may best serve those who pray. For then, we 
will commend not only our concerns, our loved ones, our very selves, 
but our times to You, with the words: ``In God we trust.''
  Even in Your timing, O God, we trust, now and forever. Amen.

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