[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 8785]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Lord God, the beginning and the end of all things, our spring 
celebrations speak to our national identity and to the soul of each 
individual. Out of the cold of winter comes new life, fragile yet 
wonderful.
  The Passover renewed and the eternal meaning of Easter usher in an 
abiding sense of being the free children of God because we celebrate 
Your presence once again revealed in the course of history and in the 
ordinary affairs of daily life. May the cloud of Your mystery guide us 
day and night and never be lifted from our conscious endeavors.
  Be with Congress as it takes up the affairs of state. Both by law and 
policy, this government seeks to establish a world fresh with 
creativity, born out of freedom and brilliant with hope, because faith 
is renewed and trust is placed more squarely in You who live and reign 
forever and ever.
  Amen.

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