[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5630]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Whether the darkness is fear, anxiety, prejudice, or mere confusion, 
wake us with Your dawn, O Lord.
  Free us, that we may be children of light; bold in faith, humble in 
truth, and loving in service.
  Empower us to reach out to all our brothers and sisters across this 
Nation.
  May we walk with compassion, enveloped with the sense of unity as we 
approach a new day of universal understanding.
  Lord, make us all heralds of good news, whether richly blessed or 
humbled by need. For You can strengthen us by the sheer determination 
to build Your kingdom with the help of one another, both now and 
forever. Amen.

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