[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 2931]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Show us Your way, O Lord.
  Even today people hear Your urgent call and are moved to seek Your 
aid on their pilgrim road of faith. Many have decided to follow this 
road, O Lord, but they have discovered this is no superhighway but a 
narrow path leading to You and the gift of life.
  Silence and prayer emerge as the source and depth of faith. 
Conversion of heart and renewed, painful letting go hold our new 
beginnings.
  Allow government leaders and all the people of this great Nation to 
receive new life and energy, to rebuild avenues of trust and an 
enduring infrastructure that will enlighten our future with security 
and peace.
  For this we ask and work now and forever, O Lord. Amen.

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