[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 16]
[House]
[Page 22245]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Lord God, how simply children learn to pray: ``Thy will be done.'' 
Are they more dependent, innocent, and free compared to the rest of us? 
Or is it because they are more practiced in obedience? ``Thy will be 
done.''
  As adults, Lord, do we try to convince You by our prayers to see 
events, problems, or others as we see them? Perhaps blinded by our own 
fears and guilt, we are easily convinced by the cumulative lies of 
selective history and the intellectual culture. So much so, that we 
insist on thinking that we are on an even match with You, Lord.
  So, it is Your will against ours. How arrogant even Your people of 
faith can be.
  In truth, make us humble of heart, Lord; or else You may find Your 
own way to humble us before You.
  Amen.

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