[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 163 (Tuesday, September 21, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H4562]
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:
  Blessed be Your glorious name, and may it be exalted above all 
blessing and praise. You made the heavens and all their starry host, 
the Earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You 
give life to everything.
  Almighty God, how humbling it is to consider how You are indeed the 
source of our lives and all that surrounds us.
  Truly, when we consider the whole of life--not just our own affairs, 
not just today's concerns--but the very existence of the universe, how 
can we not yield our whole selves to Your care and direction?
  So we ask that You, in Your mercy, would receive our prayers and 
forgive our indifference to Your authority; our arrogance that 
convinces us that our rightness exceeds Your righteousness; our 
wandering hearts which cause us to explore our personal liberties and 
ignore Your law; our stubbornness which refuses to see the good in the 
other and disregards the God in their soul.
  Our God, may we bind ourselves to You this day. May we repent from 
our follies and remain ever faithful to Your covenant and steadfast 
love.
  In the mercy of Your name, we pray.
  Amen.

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