[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 20]
[House]
[Page 27181]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Nothing genuinely human should ever fail to raise an echo in our 
hearts, Lord, if we are true believers in our common creation and 
disciples of the Supreme Master.
  As members of a common humanity, our history, our origins of birth 
and even our different persuasions of religious belief will never dull 
our awareness that we are already one on a very deep level and quite 
interdependent upon one another.
  Guide us to a greater understanding of one another. Bridge our 
differences with Your own powerful love for each of us.
  Lift all blinders, Lord; that we may truly see one another as 
singular and unique yet we are able to come together, Lord, before You, 
with You and in You, now and forever. Amen.

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