[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 120 (Thursday, July 13, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H3493]
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:
  Guide us, O great Jehovah, as we make our pilgrimage through these 
days. Order our steps when at any point the path is obscure of 
certainty or our vision is impeded by doubt.
  Strong deliverer, lead us through this day as we continue doggedly 
our pursuit of right answers and reasoned legislation. Direct us in 
this our daily quest for noble ends and sound decisions.
  Grant Your servants an understanding mind to govern Your people, a 
mind of both compassion and reasonableness, a mind of both fairness and 
moral authority.
  Enable us amid well-researched debate and passionate argument to have 
the insight to determine what is of You and how we are to align 
ourselves to Your gracious plan. And if any of us is lacking in such 
wisdom, may we be wise enough to ask it of You.
  Bestow knowledge and discernment upon us generously and mercifully. 
May any test of our faith and our faithfulness this day produce 
endurance, and may our endurance serve to accomplish Your work in our 
lives that we may, at the end of the day, be found mature in our faith 
and closer in our walk with You.
  In the strength we find in You and in the power of Your name, we 
offer our prayers.
  Amen.

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