[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3539]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  You, O Lord, are our light and our salvation. Lord God, may living 
faith lead to greater charity and strengthen our service. Fill us with 
wisdom that all may know the fullness of life is not found in self-
interest, but in love and commitment to others.
  Whether members of a family, CEOs in business, or elected officials 
in government, You ask all to show their faithfulness to love and their 
promotion of justice in ordinary decisions each day.
  Those who say they love God and do not know how to be loving to 
others or forgive others or how to seek justice in practical ways for 
the voiceless and the powerless are living in blinding darkness. You, O 
Lord, are light for conscience, for the heart and for the world both 
now and forever.
  Amen.

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