[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 67 (Monday, April 19, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H1895]
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:
  God our shepherd, You have entrusted us with the responsibility to 
tend Your sheep, to feed them and watch over them. May we be worthy of 
this mantle of awesome responsibility and live wholeheartedly into this 
task. May nothing we do be done simply out of obligation. But having 
received Your tender mercies in our own lives, may we be eager to serve 
You and those whom You have commended to our care.
  And if we lose sight of Your claim on our lives and waver in our 
duties, call us to examine the multitude of instances where You have 
showered Your grace upon us.
  How then can we help but be so transformed that we would want nothing 
else but to give of ourselves from the depths of our souls?
  May we then be examples of what it means to serve You. May we live 
lives of kindness and humility, not lifting ourselves up, but waiting 
with patience for the moment when, in the fullness of time, You reveal 
the purpose for all our efforts and energies, in Your gracious plan.
  In the meantime, we cast ourselves--our anxieties, our best 
intentions, and our most fervent hopes on You--in sure and certain hope 
of Your steadfast love for us.
  It is in the strength of Your name we pray.
  Amen.

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