[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 204 (Tuesday, January 3, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H10549]
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 God, into Your hands we commend the efforts and accomplishments 
of the 117th Congress. The Members, officers, staff, administration, 
Capitol Police, and all who have endured long hours of heartfelt and 
intense labor now lay their contributions before You for Your blessing.
  Receive the work of our hands that by Your hand our Nation would be 
upheld in the pursuit of a more perfect union.
  Bless the outcomes of heated debate and passionate argument that by 
Your righteousness, what is right in Your eyes would prevail.
  Sanctify both the profound and the mundane moments of these last 2 
years that we would be assured that Your grace plan has been advanced, 
whether because of or despite our best efforts.
  Hear our prayer, O Lord, for this past Congress that the words of our 
mouths and the meditations of our hearts will have been acceptable in 
Your sight, our rock and our redeemer.
  We pray this in Your sovereign name.
  Amen.

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