[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 177 (Wednesday, December 2, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H13389]
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:
  Lord God, why is global security so difficult to achieve or sustain? 
Why is global security so needed and so desired? What do we mean when 
we say these words? How do we pray or even imagine what global security 
would look like?
  So far, beyond our day-to-day world, the round of an agriculture 
cycle, the ordinary manufacturing routine, the busy swirl of business, 
economic free-fall, or the data of any computer, is the unimaginable 
picture of global security so impossible to communicate?
  No wonder we are not sure what steps to take if we do not have a 
picture in mind. How do we pray, except to lay the words themselves 
before You, O Lord, as if it were Your problem or of Your making and, 
so now, in need of Your healing power. To which part of the world's 
prayer for global security is any of us willing to say amen, Lord?
  Yet deep down we know You know. We need global security. Help us, 
Lord, in word, in deed, in heart--at least in prayer, be united as we 
pray for global security and together say: amen.

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