[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 164 (Tuesday, October 18, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H8399]
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, following the spate of mass shootings this weekend, we add 
Harrisonburg, Virginia; Atlanta, Georgia; Denver, Colorado; and 
Raleigh, North Carolina, to our ever-growing, though sadly incomplete, 
prayer list. We pray today for all communities grieving too many 
violent deaths and tragic injuries inflicted upon unsuspecting men, 
women, and children, most of whom were just going about the business 
and pleasure of their day.
  Hear our prayers as we seek to make sense of the senselessness of 
these events.
  Tend to our grief as we look for consolation in the wake of the 
inconsolability that attend these crimes.
  Grant us a way forward as we search for answers while consumed by 
countless unanswerable questions.
  God, is it true, as St. Augustine assured, that You permit such evil 
so as to transform it to a greater good?
  Give us, then, eyes to see, ears to hear, and hearts to believe in 
this unbelievable promise You offer.
  Then give us wills to live into the possibility of this impossible 
hope and to be the visible agents of Your invisible grace.
  Holy God, we lay our finite lives to the infinite mercy found in Your 
name.
  Amen.

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