[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 22 (Friday, February 5, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H391]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, Reverend Margaret Grun Kibben, offered the following 
prayer:
  Sovereign God, intrude into our deliberations. Judge between the 
factions and be the arbiter of our disputes over budgets and partisan 
belligerence, deficits and debt, COVID and conflicting interests.
  Beat our swords of rhetoric and ridicule into instruments of peaceful 
resolution. Take our spears that we use to assault the character and 
core values of our colleagues and force them into tools of cooperation 
and collaboration.
  Open our eyes to the weapons of contempt and disrespect our Nation 
has taken up, which threaten to divide not just communities and 
families but our very Republic. And call upon us to break this cycle of 
insidious violence.
  Then equip us as the inheritors of our country's noble purpose, 
leaders in our generation, that we would demonstrate that the idea of a 
United States is worthy of sacrificing our inclination for pride and 
pretense in favor of an attitude of mutual respect and unity of effort.
  We pray in the strength of Your most holy name.
  Amen.

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