[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 161 (Friday, October 7, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H8381]
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:
  All that we are and all that we have comes from You, O God. You have 
graced us with life, abundant with love and abounding with opportunity. 
All we need do is look around and we can, with our whole being, see, 
hear, smell, taste, and touch Your generous gifts and know of Your 
extraordinary faithfulness to us.
  With the psalmist, we sing Your praises:
  Our love, Lord, reaches to the heavens, Your faithfulness to the 
skies. Your righteousness is like the highest mountains, Your justice 
like the great deep.
  You, Lord, preserve both people and animals. How priceless is Your 
unfailing love, O God. People take refuge in the shadow of Your wings. 
They feast on the abundance of Your house. You give them drink from 
Your river of delights, for with You is the fountain of life. In Your 
light, we see light.
  Lord, hear our deepest and heartfelt gratitude for all You have done 
for us and who You have made us to be.
  May we live faithfully into these gifts.
  By the power of Your name, we pray.
  Amen.

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