[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 8224]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Lord God, contrary lines run parallel; they may never meet. Holding 
their own, they forever respect equal distance to each other. 
Contradictory lines are sure to clash because they are determined only 
by self-direction. A straight line demands everyone to take a side. A 
curved line, however--however subtle it is--in the end will form a 
circle and find oneself.
  Lord, help us not to be rigid in our own sense of direction or rash 
in drawing lines for others. Draw us closer to Your presence, Lord, so 
we may respond to Your influence upon us; and allow us to have Your way 
with us, both now and forever.
  Amen.

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