[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 20]
[House]
[Page 28611]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Lord God, we seek Your guidance and protection; yet, we are often 
reluctant to bend to Your ways. Help us to understand the patterns of 
Your creative hand. In the miracle of life and the transformation to 
light, You show us Your awesome wonder. Both the changing seasons and 
the dawning of each day reveal for us Your subtle but consistent 
movement during every moment of life.
  Without a screeching halt or sudden curtain, You change darkness into 
light and provide a new day. Only week after week does Mother Earth 
strip herself and then blanket herself for winter. Guide us to imitate 
Your silent but relentless plan of transcendence.
  Through the gradual building of consensus and the hard work toward 
responsible transition, may Your people all over the globalized world 
tire of competition and war and awaken to new ways of interdependence 
and peace.
  For this we pray, now and forever. Amen.

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