[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 71 (Friday, April 29, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H4611]
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:
  Loving God, in these days when so much of our experience is of 
disunity and disparagement, coldheartedness and hatred, we pray Your 
guidance in our attempts to find unity in spirit and love for one 
another.
  When all around us seems to encourage mean-spirited retorts and 
arrogant attitudes, may we be of tender heart and humble mind.
  Give us courage that we would not yield to the desire to repay evil 
for evil or to even the score of abuse with even more abuse.
  Rather, give us the wealth of faith to repay each insult, affront, 
indignity, barb, and slur, with blessing.
  Cast Your eyes on the righteous, O Lord, and open Your ears to our 
prayers.
  It is in Your merciful name we pray.
  Amen.

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