[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 183 (Tuesday, November 29, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H8599]
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:
  O Lord, You give and You take away. Blessed be Your name. By Your 
grace, You have given us Your noble and humble servant, Representative 
Donald McEachin, and we have been privileged to enjoy this, Your 
generous gift, and we are witnesses to his response to Your claim on 
his life.
  Representative McEachin lived into Your anointing, committing himself 
to bringing good news to the poor, proclaiming freedom for those 
imprisoned by the inequities that constrain, and working diligently to 
set the oppressed free. His compassionate manner and trusted counsel, 
so eagerly shared with all those graced to be in his sphere, are truly 
a blessing that we will cherish dearly.
  O Lord, You give and You take away. Blessed be Your name. For even in 
the worst of his brave and valiant fight for his life, Representative 
McEachin held firm in his convictions that You gave him the strength to 
endure his sufferings. May this, his legacy of character and devotion, 
reveal the hope he found in You.
  Then may all who grieve this day, his wife Colette, his dear family, 
his colleagues, and friends, find blessing in this same hope, that in 
his life and his death, Representative Donald McEachin will always 
bring glory to You.
  It is in Your sacred name we pray.
  Amen.

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