[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 340]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  O God, the source of all justice, truth and love. Members of the 
House of Representatives stand before You as government of the people, 
seeking Your grace and guidance in their service.
  We know we must always be deeply concerned with the human needs that 
surround us. We cannot be indifferent to suffering, to injustice, 
error, or untruth. For this reason, again today we are committed to 
face the risks and problems that confront the people of this Nation.
  Help us, Lord, to take all their human concerns to heart; to pray 
over them, seeking Your guidance; to address them honestly with others 
so they will be drawn into the awareness of their importance as well.
  Enable us to investigate together the forces of destruction and 
creativity at work within each human concern so we may be led to 
decisive action that will free people and at the same time bind them 
together in just law and good policy.
  May this work be a blessing upon the Nation. In the end, to You, O 
Lord, be all glory and honor.
  Amen.

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