[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 2 (Thursday, January 6, 2011)]
[House]
[Page H49]
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:
  You, O God, are our refuge and our strength. History has taught us 
You are a helper close at hand in times of distress. We shall not fear, 
even when the whole Earth is unstable and seems to rock. Our human 
frailty has revealed that we can easily be shaken. Nations are in 
tumult, mountains of power fall, and economic waves rage and foam.
  You alone, Lord God, cannot be shaken. Each dawning day finds You as 
our stronghold. Your voice works wonders over all the Earth. Wars are 
pushed to an ending, but You alone break the bows and snap the spears 
that pierce the soul. You burn off our shields with Your fire, and we 
hear once again Your voice: ``Be still and know that I am God; supreme 
over all the nations, supreme over all the Earth.''
  O God, be our stronghold, now and forever.
  Amen.

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