[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 7918]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  I am grateful to the Members of the House of Representatives and all 
those who work here on Capitol Hill because they exist and because they 
are who they are. They do what they do and try as they may to make a 
difference in this place, in this Nation, and in this world.
  I am grateful to You, O God, for having placed me among them and for 
having told me to be their father, their minister, their rabbi, a 
spiritual seeker with them in troublesome times.
  Finally, I am grateful to You, O Lord, because in the midst of such 
public hearing and so much activity, I can find the solitude of prayer 
that shuts off the TV wars and simply questions the times in which we 
live and the priorities which set our motion.
  In this most significant place, I find myself in them and with them, 
wondering what is the human dimension to government, to power, to war, 
and to life. I wonder, and I wonder further, and I wonder, until I come 
to You, our wonderful God. I wonder if You still recognize Yourself in 
us, for we were once made in Your image and likeness.
  Amen.

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