[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 20]
[House]
[Page 27564]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Hear us, O God, as we call upon Your holy name and bend our heads in 
prayer. You can inspire us as You have inspired others throughout the 
ages.
  Make us instruments of peace and towers of strength because of our 
practice of self-control. Give to Your people, both in government here 
in this Chamber and living across the Nation, the wisdom to see that no 
good life can come to us without good discipline. Give us the grace to 
discipline our speech so that we may speak with honesty and clarity 
that will only benefit others and not confuse or ridicule others.
  Help us to discipline our thinking and our actions so that others may 
be edified by the way democracy works, accomplishes the will of the 
people for the lasting good of the people, and gives You glory now and 
forever. Amen.

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