[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 15]
[House]
[Pages 21675-21676]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Lord God, designer of nature's cycles and the judge of human events, 
continue to guide us through all the seasons of life.
  Eight weeks ago today, this Nation was viciously attacked by 
terrorists. Help the Members of this House and all Americans to 
understand what has happened to us since then. That first day knocked 
us into a delirium of astonishment, anger, and loss. Give us now a 
second wind of Your Spirit.
  You, Lord of revelation, have promised to be with us. Reveal to us 
through prayer the true nature of this Nation. Study in us the nature 
of war and its destructive forces.
  Make Your presence known to us by faith renewed in You, Almighty God, 
and faith in others and in ourselves.

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Give us hope by the solidarity of friends in the family of nations, and 
continue to surprise us with the indomitable love of freedom arising 
from the depths of this people. May this strength never be stymied by 
distracting news-clips or extinguished by fear.
  Rather, we have chosen to settle in for the unpredictable season of 
war, as we wrestle to pray ``Thy will be done'' in us, now and forever. 
Amen.

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