[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5444]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, offered the following 
prayer:
  Creator of the earth and skies,
  To Whom all truth and power belong,
  Grant us Your truth to make us wise,
  Grant us Your power to make us strong.
  We have not known You:
  To the skies our monuments of folly soar,
  And all our self-wrought miseries
  Have made us trust ourselves the more.
  We have not loved You:
  Far and wide the wreckage of our hatred spreads,
  And evils wrought by human pride
  Recoil on unrepentant heads.
  We long to end this worldwide strife:
  How shall we follow in Your way?
  Speak to mankind Your words of life,
  Until our darkness turns to day.
  Amen.

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