[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6715]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Lord God, full of goodness and wisdom, guide this government, 
business executives and all Your people in their daily decisions, 
especially those which have to do with money.
  Lord, before You does money have any meaning? Certainly money can 
never be the measure of a person's true worth. Before You, money cannot 
even be an index of a generous heart. Why, then, is money so important 
to Your people? And how will they be judged by You? Does money itself 
dull human perceptions and put an end to dependency on others? Are You 
not the Almighty? Then why do people think they can solve their 
problems themselves only with more money?
  As people pray, do they imagine You can help them only by giving them 
money? Do they believe You do not care how or why they spend money? If 
water is the sign of life, and a crust of bread or a bowl of rice can 
symbolize human hunger, what is the meaning of money? Does money really 
talk? In the United States the dollar bill says ``In God we trust.'' So 
be it now and forever. Amen.

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