[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 12945]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



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            HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES--Thursday, May 22, 2003

  The House met at 10 a.m.
  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Forbid, Lord, that our roots become too firmly attached to a given 
moment in time or that our love be limited to earthly things.
  Help us to understand that this journey of life is but an 
introduction, a preface, a school of love for what is yet to come.
  Grant us, Lord, true perspective. Then shall we not be possessed by 
the things we possess, or love only the things of time, but come to 
love the things that endure.
  Save us from the tyranny of possessions which we have no leisure to 
enjoy or property whose care becomes a burden or of games which only 
rob us of time.
  May we have the courage to simplify our lives around family, friends 
and faith.
  And by Your grace, may we be fully alive, not merely exist, enjoy our 
work and find balance in daily living so as to live as the free 
children of God now and forever. Amen.

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