[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 202 (Friday, November 19, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H6659]
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:
  Holy God, in the dawn of this new day, shed Your light on our 
proceedings. Clear our minds and give us clean hearts to engage 
mercifully with each other. Refresh and renew our spirits that we may 
pursue the day's goals and the Nation's business with pure motives. 
While some rejoice in the harvest of hard work, others remain concerned 
about the labor that remains ahead.
  Be among this fractured body and bring healing to our differences and 
harmony to our enmity. Our passions are heightened, our opinions 
strong, our feelings deep. Call us to unity and peace, Your peace, a 
peace that is beyond our understanding. Call us to care without 
prejudice. Call us to faith without seeing. In faith, we lay before You 
our limitations, our frustrations, our discriminations.
  Set our sights on the work of restoration, transformation, and 
edification that this would one day be a body reconciled to itself, 
stronger for our differences and more noble for our mutual concern.
  Grant us hope, a hope found only in Your grace. In Your merciful name 
we pray.
  Amen.

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