[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 177 (Wednesday, November 16, 2022)]
[House]
[Pages H8515-H8516]
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:
  Sovereign God, for Your name's sake and out of the goodness of Your 
love, deliver the people of Ukraine from their enemy's unrelenting 
attacks. We pray for the poor and needy, who have lost hope and home. 
Heal the hearts of those wounded within, who have lost faith and 
family. Consider those whose lives and livelihoods have faded away like 
the evening shadows. Shine on them the light of Your saving love.
  Help the men and women, those of old age and the children, those who

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have fled their persecutors, and those who remain defiantly in place to 
preserve their land, the political leaders and the warriors who battle 
on all fronts. Protect each of them according to Your unfailing love.
  Then may the foes who pursue them know that it is Your hand that has 
preserved Ukraine. May those who curse Ukraine be made mute by Your 
just word. May those who attack be put to shame by Your righteousness. 
And may those who continue to serve You faithfully in this, their time 
of trial, find reason to rejoice in You.
  For You, O Lord, stand at the right hand of the oppressed, to save 
them from their distress.
  And so it is with hope in Your salvation and in the strength of Your 
name we pray.
  Amen.

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