[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3916]
[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, be our helper and protector. This Nation was born out 
of the dreams of freedom and the enlightenment of human potential. Help 
us, in our day, to realize fulfillment of the hopes and expectations of 
Your people.
  ``Faith is the confident assurance concerning what we hope for and 
the conviction about things unseen. Through faith we perceive that the 
world was created by the Word of God, and what is now visible came into 
being through the invisible.''
  Lord, our Founders all died in faith. They did not obtain what was 
promised, but saw it from afar. They were always searching for a better 
and lasting homeland. Faith is therefore a hopeful pilgrimage to Your 
presence, now and forever. Amen.

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