[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15014]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  As the 110th Congress, we approach You as the source of all 
enlightenment for our endeavors, Father of Light. We look to You for 
the very best gift, the perfect gift to discern the present and prepare 
for the future.
  Facing the concerns of the Nation, we look to You to guide, protect 
and elevate Your people. You do not take away our problems nor the 
conflicts of resolve. Instead, by our dealing with them, You draw from 
us a greater good and a lasting peace.
  Because You have made us and in Your revealed love brought us to true 
freedom, we need not act as in the past, nor according to the dictates 
of others, or our own compulsions. As a free people, we can act anew 
and be creative enough to do what is proper for our times.
  In America we can say: You are ``God with us'' now and forever.
  Amen.

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