[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 63 (Monday, April 17, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H1731]
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 approach You this afternoon because we believe. We 
believe that not only do You hear our prayers but You answer them. We 
believe that not only do You in Your grace plan allow for the 
possibilities for which we pray, but in You all things are possible.
  Sure that You will respond to us and certain that You will fulfill 
the hopes we place before You, we offer our heartfelt prayers for the 
welfare of our country, for civility and respect among colleagues, for 
strength to serve both justly and mercifully, and the faith to heed 
Your guidance in all these things.
  Lord, we believe. Help our unbelief. Even as we offer these prayers, 
we can't help but hold on to some doubt that what we ask for will be 
given, that what we seek we will find, given how hopeless things seem 
these days.
  Remind us again that faith in You emerges from our doubt. In You we 
find strength in weakness. In You all we desire can be found.
  So we yield ourselves to You as we offer our prayers in the power 
available to us in Your most holy name.
  Amen.

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