[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 43 (Wednesday, March 11, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H3147]
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:
  The freedom we enjoy and defend seems to be rooted in our realization 
that we are created in Your divine image and redeemed by Your revealed 
love.
  So, we are bold enough to turn to You and speak to You, Lord God, as 
children who are most secure in knowing ourselves; yet trusting in Your 
gracious care.
  With our childish problems, in a world we have created for ourselves, 
we ask and we receive. You offer wisdom and counsel. In our adolescent 
difficulties, we seek and we find ways that You show us and empower us.
  Be unto us attentive, gracious and forgiving on another day; that as 
Your free children we may come to know the fullness of Your presence 
and glory now and forever. Amen.

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