[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 43 (Tuesday, March 7, 2023)]
[House]
[Pages H1121-H1122]
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 Lord, our God, we look to You, to the mountains You have formed, to 
the heavens where You dwell, and still we find ourselves asking, where 
does our help come from? Sometimes when we don't look in Your direction 
at all, the answers we so desperately look for are that much more 
elusive.
  O maker of heaven and Earth, remind us again that our help comes from 
You. You will not let our steps slip when our path is difficult. You 
will stay awake with us in the anxiety of our sleeplessness.
  Be our shade in the heat of this day: the heat of argument, the fever 
of illness, the firestorms of hatred.
  Keep us from all harm that threatens us: the hurt from an ill-meaning 
word, the dangers of public service, the injury of our own forms of 
self-destruction.
  Watch over us this day. In the comings and goings from meetings to 
meetings and in the travel that brings us

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here to serve, watch over our lives, now and forever more.
  Into Your everlasting arms we find Your hope, and in Your eternal 
name we pray.
  Amen.

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