[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 8117]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Eternal Shepherd, our Stronghold and our Refuge, take this Nation 
under Your protection. Individually, let each one of us know that You 
do not reject any of us, as long as we are humble enough in Your 
presence and honest enough to keep asking You to forgive us for our 
blindness, our self-centeredness, and our failures.
  Lord, perhaps as a Nation and as individual persons we make ourselves 
too important. At times we may think ourselves too great for You to 
embrace us anymore. Look upon us, Lord, and see our deepest needs. 
Answer our prayer. Do not let us distance ourselves from You. Give us 
the grace to know Your loving presence more intimately today, this 
weekend, now and forever. Amen.

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