[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 108 (Friday, June 24, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H5881]
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:
  Eternal God, You created the world and called it good--and it was 
good. As we acknowledge that our heritage is deeply rooted in the first 
human beings, we ask Your forgiveness. For like them, we have dared to 
challenge Your supreme authority in favor of our own will.
  Like Cain who murdered Abel with his hands because his heart had 
turned from You, even today our wills are set on our position, our 
power, and our pride. We weaponize the things at our hands and fail to 
humble our hearts to accept Your peaceful design for community.
  Turn our wills, O God, from evil. Speak into our souls and save us 
from ourselves. For from the beginning of time we have been the 
obstacles to peace and justice. From the smallest infraction against a 
colleague to the vengeance we call down on our enemies, we have been 
and remain responsible for the roadblocks to reconciliation.
  God, grant us Your wisdom to live the righteous life You intended for 
our first ancestors. May Your divine insight make our hearts pure, 
peace-loving, considerate, full of mercy, impartial, and sincere.
  Then may our deeds henceforth be borne in the humanity that comes 
from Your eternal and gracious plan.
  In Your merciful name we pray, and by Your grace we live.
  Amen.

                          ____________________