[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 51 (Friday, April 8, 2011)]
[House]
[Page H2549]
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:
  Your Word, Lord God, calls us to reform and spiritual renewal. 
``Where your heart is, there is your treasure.'' The transformation You 
ask of us is not a change only of our manners or way of doing things. 
It is not a call for a change of language, the bottom line or even our 
thinking.
  Rather, You Lord, who are hidden from our sight, know the hidden 
secrets of the heart. So You continually seek conversion of heart 
until, at last, our hearts rest only in You.
  In such a changing world, unless we are willing to change our deepest 
desires according to Your Spirit of life and love, we will instead be 
changed by forces around us. Send forth Your powerful Spirit that You 
may have Your way with us both now and forever.
  Amen.

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