[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 1998]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  As we anticipate the President's State of the Union Address to 
Congress and the Nation this evening, come let us approach the Lord 
with praise and thanksgiving. With all humility, let us approach the 
Lord.
  Come, Members of the House and Senate, all who work on Capitol Hill, 
all Americans, come. Let us join together in honest prayer for our 
President, George W. Bush, our country, and the world, which watches us 
with great expectations.
  If, in themselves, the awesome tasks of leadership in our times, the 
great responsibility of homeland defense and efforts to end terrorism 
around the world do not humble us before the Lord, let us approach the 
Lord on an even deeper level of faith says the Psalmist.
  Trusting in the Lord's continued goodness and guidance, let us 
approach the Lord with praise and thanksgiving.
  As Americans, let us humbly praise God for all His blessings 
throughout our history. Let us thank God for our three branches of 
accountable government, our brave military forces and the common sense 
of people who desire a more perfect Union, and so establish justice, 
insure domestic tranquility, and secure the blessings of liberty for 
ourselves and posterity.
  Forever will we praise and thank You, O Lord. Amen.

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