[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 60 (Tuesday, April 5, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H4159]
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, set Your covenant before us this day. Show us how You have 
bound Yourself to us time and again throughout history and in our own 
lives. We need yet another reminder of the promises which You have so 
graciously given to Your people.
  Remind us, too, that You expect of us not just righteous, exemplary 
behavior but accountability and forgiveness. You desire not just our 
knowledge of scripture and adherence to Your law, but You desire that 
we check and recheck our attitudes, that they remain examples, 
reflections of Your steadfast love for all people.
  You desire not just that we relish the forgiveness we have found in 
You, but that we share that mercy with each and all we meet, and that 
we do so with the same unbounded, uninhibited grace that You have shown 
us.
  Speak to us louder today, O Lord, that we can't help but hear that 
You have called us into a marvelous relationship with You that we would 
then be compelled to share with one another.
  Show us Your will, that we can't help but respond with faithfulness 
to You and to the needs of the human family with whom we are 
inextricably bound.
  We listen. We wait. We pray to You this day by the fulfilled promise 
found in Your name.
  Amen.

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