[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 134 (Friday, July 30, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H4299]
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 provider, after a week of long hours and tense discussions, 
countless debates and deliberations, tears shed and tempers raised, we 
pray Your peace over this House and across this Nation.
  Mountains have been shaken, hills have been unearthed, individuals 
and ideals have been aggrieved, the cooperation and camaraderie have 
been tossed by tempests.
  And yet, You assure us that Your unfailing love for us will not be 
shaken. You will not forsake Your promise to restore vigor to the tired 
and worn out, and endurance to the exhausted.
  Give strength to the faint-hearted. Increase the fortitude of the 
weary.
  We wait upon You to renew our energies.
  Uphold as on eagle's wings these lawmakers as they return to their 
districts, and we pray they receive Your gift of respite.
  May they take the time to rededicate their service to You, that in 
serving the ideas of democracy they shall run and not be weary, they 
shall walk and not faint.
  In Your eternal name we pray.
  Amen.

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