[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 116 (Thursday, July 14, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H6511]
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:
  God, our guide, we yield our day, our plans, our wills to Your 
counsel. How much better is Your grace plan than anything we could 
create on our own? How much more valuable even than gold is Your 
wisdom? To have insight to Your understanding is better even than 
silver.
  May our minds, our hearts, our ears be open to discern Your guidance 
today. You set before each of us trusted instruments of Your own divine 
counsel: staff directors and assistants, legal counselors, clerks and 
protocol experts, public affairs directors, all sorts of people who 
devote their time and talent to the success of this congressional 
process.
  Speak clearly through them that we would hear. Stop us in our tracks 
if we head the wrong direction. Direct our steps that we would walk in 
Your will for our lives.
  Remind us that our plans fail when we choose not to receive Your 
counsel. Give us the wisdom to heed the guidance You offer from all 
those whom You place in our path this day. Hear our prayers as we 
listen for Your voice.
  Amen.

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