[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 7 (Tuesday, January 12, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H125]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, Reverend Margaret Grun Kibben, offered the following 
prayer:
  God, our Redeemer, we approach You humbly asking that You sanctify 
this day and the proceedings that are about to unfold. But we dare not 
ask Your favor until we receive Your forgiveness. We confess our 
complicity in the animosity and betrayal felt throughout our Nation. We 
pray Your forgiveness for the pride and selfish ambition lurking in the 
hearts of even the best of people. Have mercy on those who suffer the 
injustices we have unknowingly or knowingly perpetuated that have 
divided our country.
  Don't give us up to these vain inclinations, but save us from 
ourselves. Preserve each of us, those who speak and those who hear, 
from being caught up in the hatred and vitriol ever present in these 
contentious deliberations.
  Then give us the favor of Your presence among us, that our eyes will 
be open to the light of Your truth. In the transforming of our minds, 
may we discern Your will in these decisions of great import and 
national impact.
  We pray these things in the strength of Your holy name.
  Amen.

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