[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 3 (Tuesday, January 5, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H57]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Margaret Grun Kibben, offered the 
following prayer:
  Eternal God, we approach this new day, in this new year, serving in 
this new Congress, keenly aware of the challenges all this newness 
brings. We have new rules and new colleagues, in some cases new 
offices, and new decisions, each of which threaten to test our 
resilience and try our patience.
  Remind us then, that on each new morning, we are renewed with Your 
mercies, grounded in Your steadfast love for us, and inspired by the 
greatness of Your faithfulness to each of us.
  We wait on You, the one who has created this day, to refresh not just 
our strength, but to renew the spirit of our minds, that so fortified, 
we would yield ourselves to You throughout the day. Transform our 
attitudes that we would not allow our debate, our actions, ourselves to 
be conformed by any other purpose or perspective than Your own. As we 
encounter the choices that will be laid before us, give us discernment 
to know and to do Your will--to seek to do what is good and acceptable 
and perfect.
  For by the grace given to us this new day, we give You thanks.
  We pray these things in the strength of Your holy name.
  Amen.

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