[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 66 (Friday, April 16, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H1847]
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:
  Holy God, in You we live and breathe and have our being. We pause to 
acknowledge that nothing will take place today that isn't under Your 
authority, subject to Your decrees, or reliant on Your sustaining Word.
  Bless us, then, at the start of this legislative day. As we have made 
the first item on the agenda to orient ourselves to You, the giver of 
our lives, the creator of the universe, the author of our faith, so may 
our priorities throughout this day and in our lives, be thus aligned to 
Your will.
  Call us to yield to Your leadership that You would direct our words 
and deeds. Censure us with Your loving judgment and may we with 
humility respond to Your divine guidance. Speak Your Word into our 
lives, that we would find refreshment in its promises and wisdom in its 
precepts.
  Remind us in this moment of prayer, that when we place You first, You 
will order our steps and crown our efforts with success. In this is our 
hope and salvation. In Your saving name we pray.
  Amen.

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