[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 21 (Thursday, February 4, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H335]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, Reverend Margaret Grun Kibben, offered the following 
prayer:
  O Holy God, we humble ourselves before You, coming to You in prayer 
as thousands across the globe and hundreds within this Congress have 
done on this day of the National Prayer Breakfast. We pause to lay 
before You ourselves, our hopes, our dreams, our frustrations, and our 
anger, keenly aware of Your sovereignty over our lives, and our 
failures in living them.
  Even as we kneel before You, anoint us with Your mercy and lift up 
our eyes to Your grace. Shine Your redemptive light on us that we 
reflect the love that You have shown to us that our attitudes toward 
each other and to the tasks You set before us would be changed to 
demonstrate the benevolent plan You desire to share with each one and 
with this country.
  As Your people, holy and dearly loved, we commit to clothe ourselves 
with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Forgiven 
by Your mercy, we devote ourselves to bear with one another and to 
forgive the grievances we have against another.
  So transformed, may we live lives of reconciliation, not as a 
political position but in a posture of compassion. And with these 
virtues we will choose this day to love, that we would be bound 
together in perfect unity by the strength of Your most holy name in 
which we pray.
  Amen.

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