[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 202 (Tuesday, December 27, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H10533]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  The Reverend Margaret Grun Kibben offered the following prayer:
  Holy God, we pray to You, giving thanks for all those whose lives You 
have graced us to encounter. Friends and family, stranger and neighbor, 
coworkers and colleagues, each by Your magnificent orchestration have 
been brought into our lives. We give thanks to You for Your divine work 
in our lives, allowing us to be edified, comforted, upheld, and 
inspired by their love and counsel, their reassurances, and their 
challenges.
  With each of these people in mind, their faces before us, their 
presence around us, their lives impacting ours, we pray to You, our 
God, that each of us would be worthy of the part You have called us to 
play in Your eternal plan.
  By Your power, may our lives bring to fruition Your every desire for 
goodness. May our every deed be prompted by our faith in You.
  We pray this in Your name, that You would be glorified through us 
this day.
  Amen.

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