[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 417]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Lord God, You not only design but create. You sustain and shape what 
we know as reality. In Your hands as the craftsman and artist, we are 
instruments for a time. Fitting into the palm of Your hands we can 
accomplish Your will and produce what You have in mind for us. Or we 
can prove unfit to achieve Your purpose for the task at hand.
  Almighty God, help us to see ourselves as instruments in Your hands 
shaping the times we live in. In addition, enable us to see every other 
living person as Your creative instrument as well.
  Only by relating to each one as Yours can we find our true identity, 
work together, and truly give You glory, now and forever. Amen.

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