[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 171]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Lord our God, this Congress, as representative of Your people, is 
filled with prayer born out of fear, frustration and uncertainty of the 
future. May our hearts grow this new year in rhythm with the failing 
hopes and frightened signs of the Nation.
  By Your spirit, lead us in a lamentation that will unite our souls 
and lift us to a new song of freedom as the children of God.
  In Your silence, Lord, we can begin to hear the very melody of 
creation and recreation going on both now and forever.
  Amen.

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