[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 36 (Thursday, February 25, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H630]
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:
  Test our hearts today, O God.
  May the clashes we endure and the roadblocks we encounter serve like 
a crucible for silver, that in the midst of these ordeals, You would 
rid us of ugliness, wrongful attitudes, and hurtful ways.
  In the heat of our arguments and in the intensity of our discussions, 
refine us as a furnace does gold.
  Remove from us our long-held grievances and free us from our unseemly 
behaviors.
  Purify our thoughts of corrosive intent. Then forge us, that we would 
be molded and shaped to Your will and useful to the common good.
  Into Your hands, O God, we yield our spirits and in the strength of 
Your name, we offer our prayers.
  Amen.

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