[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 26128]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Ever loving and attentive Lord, You speak and the Word finds a place 
in the hearts of Your servants.
  May Your people dream new and powerful dreams not built on futile 
hope but on solid experience and faith.
  Provide us with dreams that will take us beyond present problems and 
anxieties to great solutions that will shape the future.
  Free us from fear that inhibits our belief in our own capabilities 
and in Your promises. Give us wisdom to accept our limitations and 
humbly lay the work of our minds and our hands before You.
  Your Providence, Lord, Your Providence alone, guides this Nation. And 
so once more we say as Your people: ``In God we trust.'' Amen.

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