[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 213 (Thursday, December 9, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H7559]
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:
  Create in us pure hearts, O God, and recreate within us this day new 
and steadfast spirits.
  Be our judge. When we find ourselves caught up in the love of 
triumph, transform us. Redeem our appetite for fighting and winning. 
Beat the swords we wield against others into tools that, instead, carve 
out safe places for dialogue and collaboration.
  Be our arbitrator. Disrupt our inclination to fight and win. Redeem 
our deep desire to conquer our adversaries and recast our spears into 
instruments that serve to reveal our best selves.
  Be our guide. Teach us something other than conflict. Redeem our 
predisposition to demonize or demean the other and form in us habits of 
decency and civility, honor, and respect.
  We surrender ourselves to this radical transformation and yield 
ourselves to the redemption that Your love offers us.
  Restore to us the joy of Your salvation and grant within us a willing 
spirit that we would be sustained in our service to You in this time.
  In Your sovereign name we pray.
  Amen.

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