[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13794]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Lord God, source of eternal light, on this new day we offer not only 
our prayer but all the work of Congress as a living sacrifice of 
praise. Born of human effort, the fruit of experience and right 
judgment, pressed by negotiations and compromise, with the result of 
common concern for Your people, the decisions of this Congress are 
raised up before the people of this democracy to realize their best 
intuitions, inspire their hopes for the future, and foster their 
goodness.
  At the same time, this work is raised up before You as the sovereign 
ruler of all times and nations and the compassionate defender of Your 
people, both now and forever. Amen.

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