[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 185 (Thursday, October 21, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H5735]
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:
  Lord, our God, bless this day. Give favor to our labor and consecrate 
our whole selves to Your gracious plan. Be pleased to use us as 
instruments of Your will.
  Use our hands, that they would reach out at the impulse of Your love; 
our feet that they would be swift and sure to follow Your direction.
  Use our voices that we would magnify Your message of mercy and our 
words that they would bear the fruit of love, joy, peace, forbearance, 
kindness, goodness, and faithfulness.
  Take our wills and our hearts and make them Yours. May we not hold 
back the spiritual gifts with which You have graced us that You would 
reveal Yourself through our efforts.
  All that we are, all that we aim to do, all that we hope to be, we 
owe to You. We give You our moments, our days, our very lives, in 
gratitude and in faithfulness to You. And may we prove worthy of Your 
faith in us.
  In Your gracious name we pray.
  Amen.

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