[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3950]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Lord God, our Hope and our Salvation, 40 years is hardly a lifetime 
anymore. Yet Your people wandered in the desert until a whole 
generation passed, longing for Your promises to be fulfilled.
  Now, 40 days seems far longer than a month's time. Yet both Moses and 
Jesus withdrew from the people just that long to seek Your face on the 
holy mountain.
  Be with this Nation and the Members of this House as long as it 
takes, Lord.
  Allow Your people to repent and reflect on old patterns that have 
brought about present crisis. Grant them Your power to seek new 
patterns of behavior so free people will embrace laws with 
accountability and security will spontaneously give rise to self-
discipline.
  Lord, heal our wounded nature and bring us to the fullness of life 
You have promised both now and forever.
  Amen.

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