[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10650]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  ``Love justice, you rulers of the earth. Set your mind upon the Lord, 
as is your duty. Seek the Lord with simplicity of heart.''
  Given in the Book of Wisdom, You command those who govern to love, 
but to love as none of the others, to love above all else, to love 
justice. Such a love, always seeking the ways of justice, will put 
everything and every relationship in proper perspective.
  Lord, You follow this command to those who govern with the directive 
on how to achieve and how to maintain this love of justice. ``Set your 
mind upon the Lord. Seek the Lord with your whole heart.''
  For the rulers You call into being, Lord, You alone are the source, 
the guarantee and the regulator of justice. Because You are love, 
infinite and universal, You hold all peoples in the balance of justice. 
And You teach the ways of loving justly.
  So in and through You, rulers of the earth can govern without ever 
failing their people. Because their hearts are fixed on You, 
transformative love can hold them and change everything, now and 
forever. Amen.

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