[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13251]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Lord of creation, out of chaos You breathed forth the cosmos; out of 
disorder You arranged an order in nature. You invite leadership in 
government to continue in this creative act by bringing clarity and 
consensus to complex issues facing society today. By law and the ways 
of justice, You bring a settlement to communities across this country 
and plant seeds of world peace.
  As You have acted in and through Your people in the past, so now act 
in the present. As You can always create anew, so now move and act in 
our personal lives and in our lives as a Nation. Out of love, You 
fashion and free us to reach our full potential both now and forever. 
Amen.

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