[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 19 (Monday, January 30, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H494]
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, hear the supplications of Your people. We lay before You 
our greatest concerns, our innermost thoughts, and the whole of our 
hopes and fears. And when You hear us, forgive us for any doubt, any 
reluctance, and any failure to believe that You will answer.
  Silence, then, all voices but Your own. May the words in our heads 
and our hearts be quiet. We who speak for a living, who have devoted 
our lives to fixing what is broken, and stepping into right wrongs are 
uncomfortable sitting back and waiting for Your word, listening for 
Your guidance.
  So then when You do speak, when You make clear the direction You 
would have us go, the work You have called us to do, the lives You have 
designed us to live, may we be open to receive Your divine direction.
  With ears to hear from even the most unlikely source, and eyes to see 
what You reveal from the viewpoint of Your throne, and with the hearts 
open to the stirrings of Your Holy Spirit, may we prove worthy of Your 
attention and faithful in our response this day.
  In Your sovereign and most gracious name we pray.
  Amen.

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