[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 20]
[House]
[Page 27823]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Lord, some days we do not know how to pray. What are the greatest 
needs of the Nation? Who needs Your attention? To whom should we 
individually offer our slippery dollar?
  You alone know our personal needs. You see the depths I dare not 
confess to another. My most severe wounds are buried in my own fear. 
The whole truth is difficult for us to face, humanly, so we will live 
another day on the margins.
  Lord, help Congress to do what it is able to do. Anything more would 
be fictitious. You alone know us through and through. So, by placing 
all our trust in You, we can now work as hard as we can and rest in 
peace.
  Amen.

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