[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 7861]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Lord, let our trust be in Your mercy and not in ourselves. Fix our 
hope in Your love, not in our own strength or ability or human 
resources.
  If we do not trust You, everything can lead to destruction, confusion 
and chaos. We will have only ourselves to blame. There will be nowhere 
to bury our failure or shame.
  If we trust in You everything will become for us strength, 
inspiration, and be filled with meaning.
  Everything will lead to another discovery of You in our midst and 
Your kingdom of peace and freedom at last.
  Lord, do not let us deceive ourselves. Place our trust in You, now 
and forever. Amen.

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