[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 82 (Wednesday, May 12, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H2208]
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:
  Sovereign God, You have searched us and known us. You know when we 
sit down and when we rise up. You are aware of every action we take, 
when we pause from our labors, and when we get up again to tackle the 
day.
  Even with this knowledge of our innermost being, O God, You deign to 
show us Your mercy. In Your ever-loving care, You continue to guide our 
paths. You keep us safe from harm from within and without.
  Such knowledge, O God, is too wonderful for us to comprehend. In Your 
mercy, cause us to pause and reflect on the intimate relationship You 
have established with us. May we give thought to the words yet on our 
tongues, to the plans we organize, and to the decisions we contemplate, 
that all that we would say or do would reflect Your infinite love.
  Search us again and again. Know our hearts. Test us and reveal our 
thoughts. If there is any wickedness in us, lead us, instead, to Your 
redeeming and everlasting way.
  Aware of Your abiding presence, we pray that nothing we do this day 
would give shame to You.
  It is in the strength of Your name we pray.
  Amen.

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