[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 15 (Tuesday, January 24, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H258]
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 infinite one, Your love for us is great. You who are rich in mercy, 
bend Your ear to us and hear our prayers. Draw near to us this day and 
allow us to experience Your generous and forgiving embrace and to 
receive Your manifold kindness.
  Then may we respond with the faith of our hearts and not just the 
ideas from our heads, for nothing we can conceive in our minds will 
come anywhere near to the devotion You desire of us. Help us to trust 
You with our innermost being and not just rely on the work of our 
hands, for the tasks You set before us are best accomplished when we 
yield our wills to Yours and align our efforts with Your grace plan.
  For we are what You have made us to be. We are each unique witnesses 
to Your handiwork, created to do the good work You have called us to 
do.
  Grant that all of us this day demonstrate the faith and trust You 
deserve in all that You have prepared for us. Then may our lives serve 
to glorify You as we call upon Your name.
  Amen.

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