[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 39 (Wednesday, March 1, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H975]
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:
  Search us, O Lord, and examine us; test our minds and our hearts. 
Analyze our commitment to Your righteousness in the work we set out to 
do and to Your direction in the decisions we will make. Judge our 
faithfulness to Your desire for the living of our lives this day.
  Test our minds that they would prove wise enough to understand the 
scope of our responsibility that You have laid on us as well as its 
limits. Enable us to discern wisely what is the faithful stewardship of 
resources You have charged us to manage. As war rages in Ukraine, as 
Turkiye and Syria emerge from earthquake devastation, and all the while 
our own enemies seek to exploit our vulnerabilities, the weight of our 
duty to speak, to act, and to wait is heavy on the shoulders of this 
body.
  Test our hearts, that as we weigh the costs of our involvement with 
the many areas in dire need around the world, that we would not be 
found callous to the toll these atrocities have had on tens of 
thousands of innocents, and the inestimable damage that has been 
inflicted on the integrity of peace in our lifetime.
  May our righteous inclination to devote ourselves to these tragedies 
not cause us to ignore equally urgent needs at home.
  To whom much is given, much is required. May we prove faithful to the 
many requirements Your gracious gifts demand of us.
  In Your sovereign name we pray.
  Amen.

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