[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 192 (Tuesday, November 2, 2021)]
[House]
[Pages H6080-H6081]
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:
  Living God, our souls thirst for You. In this dry and weary land, we 
look around for something that can sustain us in these times of 
complexity and frustration, something that will quench our thirst for 
righteousness and goodwill. But everything we reach for is a mirage.
  In this wilderness, we pray that You would remember us, call us, we 
who are so thirsty, to come to the water that You so generously offer 
to slake our

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spiritual drought. Our souls are hungry for divine food. Like the manna 
You provided to Your people so long ago, may the words that come from 
Your mouth feed us in a way that mere bread cannot.
  Open our eyes to the nourishment we do not yet know or find hard to 
understand. Instruct us in Your way and intensify our faith.
  Holy God, You have made us an everlasting covenant. All that You set 
before us will meet our need. May we incline our ears and come to You. 
May we hear You, that our souls may live.
  We lift up these prayers by the strength Your name provides.
  Amen.

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