[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 189 (Monday, December 14, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H14830]
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:
  Our conversation with You, Lord, is so often born out of passing 
needs and events but always rooted in faith and Your faithful love. 
Through our prayer, things often become clearer, we recover focus or 
You give us strength to persevere.
  We are confident, Lord, You will provide in the way You see best. 
When our personal efforts are stymied or our collective means fail us, 
we begin to face our own limitations.
  It then remains for us only to lift up our eyes to You so that You 
might respond to our deepest needs as You see best. It is then and only 
then we say with free abandonment, ``Amen.''

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