[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 135 (Friday, August 12, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H7559]
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, receive us into Your eternal presence and grant us the 
discernment of Your direction and the peace of Your purpose for the 
deliberations of this day. Silence, if only for a moment, all voices 
but Your own, that we would hear Your counsel and receive Your 
instruction without the echoes of competing opinion or the whispers of 
our own self desire.
  Speak in words that we can hear, whether in a still, small voice of 
encouragement or a clarion call to action, may we receive Your message 
for us today.
  Sway our hearts to Your desire that in all we say and do we would 
strive to live into Your will. Then share with us the blessing of the 
sacrament of human encounter, that in the outward visible signs You 
provide, a stranger's selfless service, shared laughter with a friend, 
or a random glimpse of the pure beauty of Your creation, we would 
experience the inward, invisible grace You offer us in each moment.
  Would that Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to the prayers 
we offer in this place, for it is in the promise of Your name we pray.
  Amen.

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