[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 104 (Wednesday, June 14, 2023)]
[House]
[Pages H2900-H2901]
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 and righteous Lord, bring us back to You. When everything around 
us demands our attention away from You, distracts our awareness of You, 
and draws us apart from You, like a shepherd lead us back to You, that 
we would acknowledge Your saving grace and loving mercy in every aspect 
of our lives.
  In this, may every Member of this body align their work, their wants, 
and their words according to Your righteousness, and may we each yield 
our desires and demands to Your virtuous design for this Nation.
  Open our eyes to those countries around the world who do not enjoy 
the liberties we have, and yet in their faithfulness have been 
preserved from their enemies and upheld by Your mercy. Nonetheless, no 
country is strong enough to boast of worldly strength nor able to rely 
solely on their own human virtue. None, not even Ukraine can claim as 
sacred the works done from the rightness of their cause. Only by Your 
grace, reflected in their faith, are they able to withstand their 
adversary.
  Awaken us to share in this testimony of faithfulness and their belief 
in the gift of Your protection against all odds stacked against them. 
Summon our hearts to follow their example of trust in Your guidance, 
and remind us to hold on to, and claim in the face of all adversity, 
the hope we have in You.
  In Your sovereign name we pray.
  Amen.

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