[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 128 (Wednesday, July 21, 2021)]
[House]
[Pages H3766-H3767]
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:
  Holy God, with confidence, we approach Your throne of grace, praying 
for Your protection over us this day. Deliver us from all that seeks to 
undo our noble responsibilities.
  Save us from our adversaries who attempt to thwart our best efforts, 
whose

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words target our integrity, and whose anger and prejudice will not 
yield to reason. We pray Your deliverance.
  Save us from our cultural rancor. In this country where we are quick 
to take sides, reckless in our judgment of the other, and have found 
ourselves mired in doubt, confusion, mistrust, and hopelessness, we 
pray Your deliverance.
  Save us from ourselves, for we are as culpable as those we accuse. 
Forgive us our shortsightedness, our self-preservation, our hardened 
hearts, and our lack of faith. When we cling to our own certainty and 
rightness, we pray Your deliverance. Then call us to hold fast to Your 
righteousness, that we may once again thrive in the confidence and the 
hope we find only in You.
  In Your sovereign name, we pray.
  Amen.

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