[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 196 (Friday, December 16, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H9905]
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 One, our Redeemer, God of the whole Earth, have compassion on 
us. Grant that those who are barren in mind, body, and spirit, would 
find reason this season to rejoice in the bounty of Your favor. May 
those who are desolate of purpose, meaning, or hope burst into shouts 
of joy at the revealing of Your grace.
  Lord, You are our dwelling place. Enlarge the doors of Your kingdom. 
Open wide the arms of Your tender loving care. Take into Your keeping 
all who are desperate and in need, those who are ashamed and disgraced, 
those who are afraid and dismayed, that they would be restored into the 
embrace of Your everlasting arms.
  For You have called us, the forsaken and the aggrieved, the cast-off 
and the abandoned, that we would all find solace in Your compassion.
  Establish us in Your righteousness and deliver us from terror. Erase 
our fear and cause us to stand ever-firm on the foundation of Your 
steadfast love.
  In Your kind and merciful name we pray.
  Amen.

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