[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 4694]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  O Creator of the heavens and Earth, You have endowed this planet, the 
ground for all our living, with innumerable gifts of nature held in 
delicate balance.
  So many resources have been given by You to Mother Earth so that life 
for Your people all over the globe may be sustained and developed.
  May this great Nation, led by gratitude and imagination in 
government, study with sincerity the laws of nature and share with 
others its discoveries so that a just distribution of all Earth's 
resources may be assured according to principles of justice and 
solidarity. Then will the poor and the hungry over all the Earth be 
given voice and sing praise and thanksgiving to You both now and 
forever. Amen.

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