[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 88 (Friday, May 20, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H5211]
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, You have allowed to fall upon us both blessings and 
obstacles, that we would never take for granted the precious gift of 
our existence and the fragility of our life.
  When we experience moments of Your favor, may we rejoice in Your 
will, and in times of displeasure, may we take seriously Your desire 
that we turn and return to You with all our hearts and souls. Whether 
we find ourselves banished to unknown frontiers or struggling at the 
periphery of our community, You, O Lord, will gather us in and bring us 
back to Your loving embrace.
  May we ever obey Your guidance and give heed to Your direction, that 
we would know of Your delight when we choose to love the Lord our God 
and walk in obedience to You.
  Today may we choose the ultimate over the urgent, the significant 
over the trivial, the substantive over the spectacle, and the eternal 
over the temporal.
  In Your sovereign name we pray.
  Amen.

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