[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 125 (Friday, July 16, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H3627]
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 Creator, Your hands made us and formed us. Please now, give 
us also wisdom and understanding in the living of these days that we 
would have hearts and minds which are eager for Your direction and 
ready for Your guidance.
  Use us in such a way that those around us would see the hope You have 
given us. Through our words, our actions, our faithfulness to Your 
compassionate counsel, may we reveal Your tender mercies in our own 
dialogue and decisions.
  According to the character and decency of Your being we are judged, 
but in Your mercy and goodness, we are loved.
  Speak through us in such a way that even those who criticize us 
unfairly, even the most unjust of our adversaries, would be convicted 
of their own hubris and shameful behavior, but through our compassion, 
come to rejoice in their acquittal by the extraordinary gift of Your 
grace.
  May we choose to walk blameless in Your presence. May our hearts 
remain undivided from Your perfect righteousness.
  In Your redeeming name we pray.
  Amen.

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