[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 209 (Friday, December 3, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H6913]
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, find reason to delight in Your people. Call us to return to 
You, yielding our whole selves to Your desires for Your creation.
  You have told us what You desire, so we ask that You would help us to 
do justice, to find opportunities to be fair to one another, to seek 
out those who are oppressed and give them voice, to look around us, and 
where there is injustice, not to ignore it.
  We ask that You would help us to love kindness, not just engage in 
polite discourse or offer a friendly gesture, but to look into the eyes 
of another and show them Your love, to go that extra mile for someone 
else's welfare, to speak to someone who clearly needs a kind and 
sympathetic word.
  We ask that You would help us to walk humbly with You. God, You have 
called us to distinguished positions and entrusted to us significant 
responsibility. You have blessed us abundantly with opportunity and 
power. May we be ever mindful that all we have obtained, all that we 
enjoy, all that we are, is from You.
  As we employ these gracious gifts of Your providence, may we live 
into Your expectations, into Your desires, that You would take delight 
in us.
  In Your merciful name we pray.
  Amen.

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