[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 16]
[House]
[Page 22883]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  All praise and honor to You, Lord God. Each day You shower the United 
States of America with blessings. Enable us to receive Your gifts 
graciously.
  With gratitude for all we have received, may each of us use our gifts 
in service to one another. Like good stewards dispensing the grace of 
God in various ways, may our very diversity give You greater glory.
  If any of us is to speak out, let us speak with Your Word. If any of 
us desires to serve, let it be in the strength You supply.
  The speaker needs another to listen. The dispenser of good gifts 
needs another to receive graciously. May true dialogue and the exchange 
of gifts be the unfolding of Your power in our midst.
  In all things, let us so act that the glory and the power be Yours 
forever and ever. Amen.

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