[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 122 (Tuesday, July 13, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H3621]
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:
  You, O Lord, have been gracious to us. You have dealt kindly with us, 
according to Your steadfast love and abiding faithfulness.
  We ask You, then, to teach us this day. Teach us good sense and equip 
us with Your knowledge so that we would learn to rely on Your guidance 
and walk in Your ways.
  Sometimes in our frustration we forget Your promises. Sometimes when 
we are distressed because of overwhelming concerns and entrenched in 
intractable partisan perspectives, we lose sight of Your mercy which 
transcends any human judgment. Or, we fall prey to our own arrogance 
and self-preservation and ignore Your sovereignty.
  And so we pray that You would give us strength to loose the bonds of 
lies and falsehood, pride and conceit which seek to undo us.
  May Your justice and mercy, which You wield over all the Earth, 
dispel the injury inflicted on us or which we exact on others.
  May the integrity of Your word pierce the hearts of the callous and 
unfeeling, even our own.
  Then may the depth of Your love humble us, that we would come to know 
that Your gracious plan is more precious than anything we value or 
devise without Your blessing.
  In the hope of Your name we pray.
  Amen.

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