[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9838]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin offered the following 
prayer:
  We believe in One God, Father of all, Creator and source of life for 
all.
  To say You are one is to hint at Your perfection. To call You a 
trinity of persons is to bless You in Your oneness of relationship. 
Yours is continual communication and relating.
  We beg for Your grace and power that we may be one. Remove all 
division and discord which cause dysfunction and confusion in our 
souls.
  Make of our diversity a new strength; that will bind us to one 
another in purpose.
  Heal our understandable wounds of the past and all paralyzing fears 
of the future. Help us to develop better skills in relating to others.
  Shape our differing perspectives by respectful dialogue so we may be 
unified in serving the common good of this nation and be a light to the 
world.
  Amen.

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