[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 4]
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[Page 4673]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Lord God, how different history would be if long ago people had taken 
Your holy word seriously: ``Make justice your aim.'' Each day would be 
filled with promise and hope if all of us upon rising would make 
justice our aim. Without blaming anyone or without seeking applause, 
each day would lead to changing the world, if justice alone were our 
aim.
  Justice itself would give balance to our daily routine, breathe 
contentment into our souls and set us free. Justice toward others would 
create a mutuality with every other person that would be fair, take us 
beyond expectation and codependency until we found trust and security.
  Lord, if we as a people and as a Nation were to make justice our aim, 
how would this change our priorities? Could we change that much? In 
every age You alone, Lord God, take people beyond their wishful 
thinking and beyond themselves. You alone bring about lasting and true 
justice.
  So, Lord God, in us and through us make justice Your aim now and 
forever. Amen.

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