[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 28 (Friday, February 11, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H1117]
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:
  Holy God, we pause in this moment to turn our hearts toward You. We 
appear before You and enter Your court of righteousness that You would 
receive our prayers and accept our humble offering.
  May our efforts not appear meaningless but may both our words and our 
actions reflect our trust in Your direction. May our concerns not 
burden Your patience but invoke Your mercy and tender care.
  Do not hide Your eyes from us. Though we are prone to wander from 
You, listen to the sincerity of our hearts as we yearn to return to 
You. Teach us to cease our wrongdoing that we may learn to do what is 
right.
  May we seek justice, defend the oppressed, be willing to bear the 
cause of the orphaned, and work on behalf of the grieving. May we in 
the business at hand and in the undertaking of our responsibilities, 
live into Your design for our days.
  Sanctify our work and purify our lives as we move from prayer to 
purpose.
  We offer this prayer in Your holy name.
  Amen.

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