[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 99 (Thursday, June 9, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H5413]
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 humble ourselves and pray to You, yielding our wills to 
Yours, and giving ourselves over to Your authority. We pray that You 
would be merciful in Your discipline.
  Search our hearts and melt all hardness that You find therein. 
Liberate us from the bonds of hostility that prevent us from living 
lives of love and compassion.
  Inspire us also to humble ourselves and to unite in prayer as a 
nation. Search the soul of our society and speak into the pain and 
suffering. Hold us accountable to the countless ways we are inclined to 
stray from Your will.
  Then silence the voices within and among us which vie for power and 
strive to eliminate cooperation. Remind us of Your desire for mutual 
and respectful dialogue and of our responsibility to respect those with 
whom You have called us to serve.
  Call us not to listen for our own counsel but to heed Your own. Call 
us out when we hasten to judge the differences of opinion, rather than 
work for the common good. And call us from our intransigence into Your 
transcendent presence that we would experience Your grace and be 
transformed by Your spirit.
  May we serve the people--Your people--with kindness and wisdom this 
day.
  In Your divine name we pray.
  Amen.

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