[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13718]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Lord God, You are the Most High, the Almighty, yet Your love reaches 
out to us and surrounds each detail of human life.
  The Members of Congress seek answers to the deepest questions facing 
the Nation. Attentive to their districts and the human cries of 
families they know and individuals lost in the void of unemployment, 
they hear tangible truth breathing beneath the blanket of pundits and 
pollsters.
  Help them, Lord, to discover ways that will lead Your people from 
crisis to opportunity. With creative consultation and intellectual 
depth, Lord, we ask You fix a vision for the future. Let them build 
upon the known strengths of America.
  By appealing to the Nation's innate sense of justice and generous 
patriotism, may they always seek Your presence and Your activity 
working within Your people and the country's democratic process both 
now and forever.
  Amen.

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