[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 1189]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Lord, yesterday, proud to be Americans, became a memorable day of 
celebration.
  A conversion of history does not mean history is overturned or 
undone. Its true meaning calls for a new way of living. Because the 
future is no longer to be feared, we can be open for every confirmation 
of hope realized.
  The historic past can be drawn upon for lessons yet to be learned. 
But now truly free, we are to act as Your people with a new spirit of 
responsibility, able to respond to the demands of every moment given 
us.
  It is now upon us as a government and as a Nation to make history, to 
take our time, and make it a time worth celebrating.
  So it ever was, is now, and ever will be, generation after generation 
here in America.
  Lord God, be with us now and forever. Amen.

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