[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 201 (Friday, December 23, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H10059]
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:
  What great love You have lavished on us. We look around and see how 
transformed the world can be just by city lights and colorful 
neighborhood decorations. But in this special time may we come to 
realize that the spirit of hope and the joy of this holiday and how we 
ourselves change in the season is all because of Your generous love and 
kindness.
  Surrounded by friends or family, awash with a whole host of feelings 
and emotions, or painfully alone when all around us others are 
ebullient with the merriment of parties and gatherings, we ask that You 
would speak to us wherever we are, that we would discover that our true 
joy is found in knowing that You are among us in all our moments.
  May we find reason to rejoice every day in these most wonderful of 
all gifts, that we should be called the children of God.
  And so we are, with all our hopes and dreams, fears and tears, You 
receive us in Your tender embrace. You have gifted us with the purest 
and most perfect of loves, the love of You, our creator, our savior, 
and our comforter.
  So in deepest gratitude for Your overwhelming grace in these festive 
days and always, we pray in Your holy name.
  Amen.

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