[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 109 (Thursday, June 22, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H3075]
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:
  Loving God, what a gift You have given us in embracing us in the 
depth of Your love. Such a wonder it is that You would choose to love 
us that it is both beyond our understanding and yet reaches into our 
deepest needs.
  Because You, in Your mercy, have first loved us, help us to respond 
by loving others. Enable us to live fully in the mystery of Your 
heavenly love, that all hatred and malice would not find a way into 
this day's encounters. Root out any inclination our hearts may have to 
disdain Your compassion by our failure to show kindness to one another.
  Save us, too, from any love that obscures Your own. Our passions, our 
pet projects, our priorities, are poor substitutes for the purpose You 
have for us. Our arrogance, our self-absorption, our attitudes, are 
nothing but self-generated obstacles, blinding us to Your activity in 
the world around us.
  Let Your love be the lens through which we look at the people with 
whom we interact in this place, that our life would reflect the depth 
of our love for You and the magnitude of Your love for all of creation.
  By Your grace and in Your name we pray.
  Amen.

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