[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 138 (Tuesday, August 23, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H7719]
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:
  On this day, O God, we call upon You. May our prayers rise like 
incense to You, the lifting up of our hearts and hands be like an 
acceptable sacrifice.
  Come quickly to us. Hear our voices as we appeal to You. We offer to 
You our innermost thoughts, our heartfelt desires, our looming 
concerns, and our deepest hopes. Receive them all into Your grace.
  Then redeem us, we who strive to be the people You desire us to be 
into the people You desire us to be. May our service be well-pleasing 
to You.
  In all that we do and all that we say, look down with mercy upon us 
and receive with appreciation our most humble offerings. Transform our 
most feeble attempts to do the right thing, to the right thing to do.
  We yield our whole selves to You this day, that You would use us to 
succeed in the work You set before us and to live into the 
responsibilities You have laid upon us. May Your will be done here in 
this place. And may You be glorified in our lives.
  We offer our prayers in the power of Your most holy name. Amen.

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