[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 16047]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  O Shepherd and Guardian of our souls, we have returned to You.
  At times we do not realize how we have distanced ourselves from You. 
Not always attentive to Your voice, we tend to wander on our own.
  Then, by Your grace, You bring us back.
  When a sense of alienation shadows our soul, we find our differences 
difficult to bear and move away from each other.
  Help us to overcome our hesitancy to accept diversity.
  Bringing us to a deeper level of awareness by Your Spirit, make us 
one Nation.
  Give us listening hearts, willing to give each other time and 
attention and ready to respond to Your Spirit living in one another now 
and forever.
  Amen.

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