[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16716]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Lord God, ever present and holding all in balance, take our world 
today and shake it into common sense. Wring out true values from the 
indifferent. Calm the anger. End all retaliation. And grant us the gift 
of peace.
  But to receive a gift, one must be ready. Are we not prepared, Lord? 
Is that the reason for the delay?
  Perhaps peace is so fragile we do not know how to handle it, even if 
You were to offer it to us. Help us, Lord, today and every day, to 
ready ourselves for that day of good news.
  Today, at least we can rehearse for it by receiving any message 
humbly and graciously.
  Amen.

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