[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 1 (Monday, January 3, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H1]
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:
  Almighty God, we orient ourselves to You and lay before You our 
prayers as we enter this second year of the 117th Congress.
  Consecrate this new year that it would be a year of spiritual joy and 
peace, a year of obedience and faithfulness. Guide all our thoughts and 
words that they would reflect Your perfect will, Your absolute Word, 
Your loving intent.
  Direct all our energies according to Your purpose for the common good 
of our fellow Americans.
  Give us the skill to serve You. In Your grace, You have surrounded 
each of the country's Representatives with talented advisers, diligent 
staff members, exceedingly devoted behind-the-scenes clerks and 
recorders, laborers, and administrators. Cause all to realize the 
significance of the gifts You have uniquely given each person. Remind 
us again that our efforts will prove all the more effective when 
carefully and compassionately woven with the talents of every other 
soul with whom we serve.
  By Your mercy, reveal the plans You have for this body, plans for 
hope and not harm, that our future will rest safely in Your beneficent 
grace.
  With our whole hearts, we ask Your blessing for this new 
congressional year. Lord, hear our prayer.
  Amen.

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