[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 11 (Tuesday, January 18, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H201]
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:
  All-knowing, all-seeing God, look upon us this day. Nothing is hidden 
from Your sight. All that we are is laid bare before You.
  Peer into our innermost thoughts and redeem the unworthiness therein 
that attempts to define us. Search our souls and give comfort to the 
discontent that threatens to overwhelm us.
  In Your mercy, see us as we are meant to be and give us the light of 
Your countenance to live into that hope.
  Then, as we have been seen, may we see. As we gaze around us, help us 
to look upon the people You have placed in our paths with the same 
acceptance that You have shown us.
  Give us Your sight, that we would not be the judge of unworthiness, 
but the agents of Your redemption. Give us eyes to see the 
discontented, that we would be instruments of Your comfort and gracious 
care, with a selfless gesture, a kind word, a helping hand.
  Reveal all around us who seek to remain invisible or who have, by our 
indifference, remained hidden, that no one would have cause to believe 
that they remain outside Your grace and mercy.
  In Your omniscient name we pray.
  Amen.

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