[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 107 (Thursday, June 23, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H5834]
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:
  Almighty God, give us eyes of faith. Like little ones who live with 
open hearts, open minds, and open hands, remind us that, as Your 
children, You welcome us into Your arms and hear our prayers.
  Restore to us if not the innocence of the young--for we have seen, 
heard, and experienced too much to be that naive--then grant us the 
ability to trust You and the people and purpose You put before us. 
Dispel our cynicism and hurt and open our hearts to Your movement in 
our lives.
  Enable us to be respectful of differences of opinion. Relieve us of 
our need to dismiss people who disagree with us with labels and 
stereotypes, and open our minds to find not only our shared passions 
but the value of diversity in the health of our society.
  Then encourage us to reach out in ways that will bolster up the 
other. For woe to the one who is alone and has no one to lift him up. 
Woe, too, to the one whose helping hands are bound by fear and 
contempt. Open our hands that we would be a strength and encouragement 
to those around us.
  We give You thanks for the blessings You bestow on each of Your 
children. And we pray Your blessing that through what we seek to 
accomplish today, all would feel Your loving embrace.
  In the name of the one who gives us life that we may live it 
abundantly, we pray.
  Amen.

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