[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 6]
[House]
[Pages 7610-7611]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  Lieutenant Commander Stephen Coates, Chaplain, United States Navy, 
Office of the Chaplain of the Marine Corps, Greenville, Illinois, 
offered the following prayer:
  Sovereign Lord, the sound of this corporate prayer is as nothing 
compared to the clarion call of Your divine voice--rolling thunders of 
justice, resounding echoes of mercy, redemptive whispers of grace, calm 
assurances of comfort, promising songs of hope.
  Like Your clear voice, may all words spoken in this Chamber today 
accurately reflect the fidelity of honest conversations between 
Members, the brutal wonder of free exchange amid volitional minds, the 
compassion of sincere interactions with constituents known by name and 
place, the hallowedness of solitary, bended-knee utterances known only 
to You, and the sacred thoughtfulness incumbent upon persons of 
privilege vested with the responsibility to weigh the consequences of 
matters temporal in light of the gravity of matters eternal.

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  May the same purity of passion that stirred these willing servants to 
seek positions of public protection and provision empower them this day 
to honor You in serving all.
  Amen.

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