[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 9 (Friday, January 15, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H197]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, Reverend Margaret Grun Kibben, offered the following 
prayer:
  Everlasting God, hear our prayer as we make our requests, spoken and 
unspoken, known to You.
  Relieve us from any anxiety that prevents us from believing in and 
living into Your gracious plan for these days.
  Remind us to look not to our own interests but to the good of this 
country and its people as we move forward.
  Reveal to us that which is true, honorable, just, and pure. And may 
we, in all that we say and do, be guided by these things in serving 
Your people.
  This is the day that You have made, and we lay before You all our 
plans and purposes. May our lives today and always reflect both the joy 
and the hope we find, not in our own accomplishments, but only in You, 
that all will know Your forbearance with us and Your sacrificial love 
for us.
  We pray these things in the strength of Your holy name.
  Amen.

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