[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 5565]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Lord God, You speak to Your people through prophets and leaders as of 
old. Be with Your people now and guide the leaders of this government 
as You did in the days of Habakkuk, the prophet.
  When the cry for help was raised, You did not seem to listen. When 
the shout of violence was heard in the streets, You seemed not to 
intervene. But then You, O Lord, answered and said through the prophet, 
``The vision still has its time. Press on to its fulfillment and it 
will not disappoint. The just man because of his faith shall live.''
  Help us never to lose vision which provides hope. The value of such 
faith does not depend on fulfillment of expectation, but gives power to 
transform the lives of the faithful, to wait, to work with faith both 
today and forever. Amen.

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