[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10103]
[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 alone are holy and almighty.
  As the noble creatures of Your own making, all of us try to avoid any 
form of humiliation. Probably because of our deep sense of unconscious 
mortality, the sheer force of a powerful enemy or unbridled nature can 
diminish us with fear. The brash awakening of public embarrassment or 
the subtle put-down by a peer can humble anyone in a moment's notice.
  From personal experience, we also know how You, O Lord, can breathe 
on our conscience or artfully collapse the falsehoods which uphold us. 
Then overwhelmed by the truth of ourselves, we stand humbly before You.
  This afternoon, we as intelligent and responsible persons come before 
You and prayerfully bow our heads in humble submission to Your powerful 
presence. To seek Your blessing or to ask for Your pardon of our sins 
is simply to humble ourselves sincerely before You.
  Guide us individually, as a government and as a nation, both now and 
forever. Amen.

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