[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 41 (Friday, March 3, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H1055]
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, we pause to give thanks today for the prayer warriors 
across the globe who have dedicated themselves to this World Day of 
Prayer. For even as we pause here in this place to offer our own 
prayers for this body, for our communities, and for our country, how 
heartening it is to know that there are thousands of women around the 
world joining their voices with our own.
  As they pray, so do we, that all would come to know You better. 
Enlighten the eyes of our hearts that we would all receive the hope You 
have granted each of us. May all who believe be strengthened by Your 
incomparably great power, and may we together share in the riches of 
the inheritance You have bestowed on all Your people, sharing the 
bounty of wealth, food, medication, and clothing with those in need.
  Remind us today and each day that prayer is our greatest defense 
against the affliction of despair and hopelessness. Would that we wield 
that privilege often and with compassion and wisdom.
  In the sure and certain hope that in our asking You will answer, we 
pray in the strength of Your eternal name.
  Amen.

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