[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 23483]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Lord God, through the Holy Scriptures You speak to Your people. These 
pages are not just to be pursued for personal delight but tell the 
story of Your interaction with Your people throughout the ages.
  As people of the Book, we will see Your prophetic and apocalyptic 
proclamations fulfilled in our time. Either Your words of promise or 
condemnation will ring true to our hearing or the consequences of our 
own actions will be revealed as reading in a mirror.
  Keep us ever attuned to Your ancient wisdom. May Your Holy Word teach 
us how to bring ideals to flesh-and-blood reality and how to forgive 
one another with compassionate understanding.
  Guide this government and the people of this Nation by Your spirit, 
to hear You, respond and face judgment, now and forever. Amen.

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