[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 118 (Monday, July 18, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H6685]
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, call us into Your presence this day, that we, with full 
abandon, would run into Your loving embrace and receive the plenteous 
gifts You desire to lavish upon us.
  What an image. Your love is so welcoming. Your concern for our 
welfare so strong, and Your generosity overwhelming. We are humbled by 
Your grace.
  Held in Your everlasting arms, may we find the courage to ask for 
Your wisdom and guidance, that we would receive; to seek to discern 
what is good and right, that we may find; and to knock on doors 
barricaded by doubt and despair, that even these would be opened to us.
  O God, You are the source of our every hope, the answer for all we 
seek, and the treasure we hope to be opened to us. In this knowledge, 
may our joy be complete.
  In Your loving name we pray.
  Amen.

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