[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 116 (Thursday, July 6, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H3169]
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, You have taught us how to live in a way that will please 
You. Call to our minds again and again those lessons that we would 
work, act, and love in that way. May we be compelled to live even more 
faithfully in all that we do.
  God, You desire us to be holy, to learn how to control our minds and 
our bodies so that people who do not know You would observe in us our 
desire to give honor to You. May our lives and our attitude this day 
imitate You.
  May we never wrong others or cheat them, for in these distasteful 
misdeeds we demonstrate our refusal to obey You; You who have given us 
the gift of Your abiding presence and Your merciful love. How we 
disdain not just Your righteousness but Your grace when we fail to 
share with others the mercy You have shown us.
  In the love You have made known to us You have taught us what it 
means to love and how it is that we are to love one another, and to 
allow that love for our brothers and sisters to increase. May we love 
as You first loved us.
  Grant us then a day of blessing and a life of peace. In the 
righteousness You grant us by the power of Your name, we are bold to 
offer our prayers.
  Amen.

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