[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 78 (Tuesday, May 9, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H2144]
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, be our guide for the week ahead of us. In all that will be 
discussed, debated, and disputed, reveal Your direction in each 
deliberation. May each of us not only have the eyes to see how You 
would lead us, but a heart inclined to Your word and the will to follow 
Your own wherever You will take us to accomplish Your work in this 
place.
  Call us again to humble ourselves, and in response, may we assume a 
posture of obedience, an attitude of surrender, and offer this day and 
ourselves to You.
  Unburden us from the worry and anxiety that attends us, and free us 
from the chains that bind us, that we would learn to live our lives in 
hope.
  With our prayers and in our living, we commit ourselves to seek first 
Your righteousness. Add unto us the clarity of Your claim on us this 
day, the wisdom of Your word in our hearts, and the certainty of Your 
sovereignty over our lives.
  In Your strong name we pray.
  Amen.

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