[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10434]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Lord God, living in our midst, You have called us here to serve this 
Nation. In serving Your people we serve You.
  As Your children we are born over again and again by light, love, and 
peace.
  When our knowledge of You and the reality of all that goes on around 
us is bathed in Your light, the most ordinary aspects of life and duty 
become radiant with a gratitude and joy that ushers in Your presence.
  Be with us here. Make all of us Your friends. Then with Your intimacy 
we can befriend others and be present in a new way to the world.
  Teach us to cherish the inner peace that will help us bring peace to 
the world, because we are unafraid to learn the truth about ourselves 
and willing to embrace honesty in others.
  This we ask today, here, now and forever. Amen.

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