[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 97 (Friday, June 4, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H2689]
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:
  Lord, our God, how can we keep our thoughts, our words, our lives 
pure?
  Speak Your word to us in ways that we can hear and understand, that 
we would choose to think, speak, and live accordingly.
  May we seek You with our whole being and not allow our fear, our 
frustrations, or our lack of faith to hold us back from following You.
  May we not go astray from Your perfect will and find ourselves lost 
and helpless, ensnared in our own selfish volition and far from Your 
divine protection.
  With our lips may we praise You.
  With our lives may we rejoice in You.
  With our hearts may we delight in You, live in Your ways, and remain 
in Your presence each hour of this day.
  In the certainty of Your abiding love we pray.
  Amen.

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