[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2198]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  ``Oh, Lord, You have examined me and You know me through and through. 
You discern even my thoughts from afar.''
  It is our nature, Lord God of heaven and earth, to hold us in Your 
living presence always. It is our nature to think of You or think of 
others only momentarily. So fixed on ourselves. So limited are we.
  Be with each of us, that we may be our very best, and prove ourselves 
worthy of Your love and Your grace. Be with Congress and its work and 
deliberations today, that this government may merit the trust of the 
American people and manifest the strength of the democracy to the 
nations of the world.
  Without You, O Lord, we can do nothing. With You and in You we can 
establish a kingdom of peace, goodness and justice now and forever. 
Amen.

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