[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 129 (Thursday, July 22, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H3805]
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:
  Gracious and loving God, hear our prayers. We come to You in faith 
hoping that You would receive our concerns, spoken and unspoken, 
personal and professional. From the depth of Your infinite mercy, 
listen to us, and bless all that troubles us.
  Then enable us to listen for Your response. In a time when so much 
noise and messaging is coming from every direction, words of counsel 
and criticism, voices of guile and guidance, give us reason to pause 
and listen for Your word as You speak into our lives.
  Give us ears to hear and spirits willing not just to hear but to put 
Your counsel into practice, that this House would be built on the 
foundation You have established.
  And in our dealings with one another, in our interactions with the 
people who depend on our integrity and faithfulness, may we be quick to 
listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry.
  With humility, patience, and forbearance, may we reveal Your 
righteousness this day.
  For it is in Your saving name we pray.
  Amen.

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