[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 76 (Friday, May 6, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H4717]
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:
  In a world where weakness is shunned and flaws disparaged, we pray to 
You, O Lord, that You would uphold and redeem our imperfect existence 
with Your perfect power and loving presence.
  There is not one of us who is not found wanting according to the 
world's measurement of perfection, but in You we find our strength. 
There are holes in our lives which we attempt to fill with futile 
effort, but there is not one aspect of our being that You do not stand 
ready to enhance with a capability beyond that which anyone can 
possibly imagine.
  Your power is released in our weakness. Your perfect plan is made 
evident where we flounder.
  And so before You, O Lord, we lay before You everything that holds us 
back--our fear of failure, our sense of inadequacy, our paralysis of 
faith.
  In Your mercy may we boast not of our own competence and ability, but 
of the work You are accomplishing in us and through us despite even our 
best efforts.
  In this may we find our reason for being and rejoice in the privilege 
we have to serve You in this time and this place.
  In Your powerful name we pray.
  Amen.

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