[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 211 (Tuesday, December 7, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H6919]
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:
  Eternal God, we remember. On this 80th anniversary of the attack on 
Pearl Harbor, that day lives in infamy, having left its indelible mark 
on countless individuals, families, and our American history.
  On that fateful Sunday morning, our country was alerted to the 
precariousness of our days and the certainty of our future.
  God, we remember. Call us back to the unity borne from that sudden 
insult on our liberty. Remind us how our country rallied as one to 
uphold our freedoms.
  God, we remember. Bring to our memory the sense of shared meaning and 
shared sacrifices that our forebears held onto fiercely as they rallied 
in response to fight our enemies and cling to the essential values of 
family and faith.
  God, we do remember. May we always tell of the innumerable acts of 
heroism in the face of the horrific acts that reached our country's 
shores and threatened our Nation's sense of security and welfare.
  Holy God, even as we remember the horror of that day, we yearn for 
those days when a country as diverse and divided as we are could rally 
against the ageless enemies of divisiveness, unbridled power, and 
injustice.
  Then as now, You prove to be the constant defender of our freedom and 
the source of our hope. In response to Your mercy, may we remember and 
once again seek to preserve and uphold our shared moral understandings 
and to demonstrate our mutual respect, that we would ever protect all 
that is good and holy, acceptable, and perfect.
  In Your saving name we pray.
  Amen.

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