[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 953]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Lord God, author of life and source of eternal love, You have 
revealed Yourself in human terms so that we may sense Your presence and 
in our minds hold onto Your commands.
  Help us in Congress and as a nation to respect one another as You 
respect all and endow each human life with inalienable rights.
  According to Your provident ways each age is blessed with unique 
personalities and particular persons who are given significant 
positions and great responsibilities.
  Because the President of the United States of America has 
constitutional duties, overwhelming demands, powerful decisions to 
make, and enormous influence upon world history, he is always in need 
of our prayers.
  As this Chamber and this body is readied to welcome President George 
W. Bush for his State of the Union Address, we ask Your blessing upon 
him, his Cabinet, all his advisers, and especially his family. Guide 
him, protect him. Grant him health and Your saving grace; that Your 
people may be united and strengthened in truth, goodness, and peace. 
This we ask calling upon Your holy name. Amen.

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