[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 127 (Monday, July 24, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H3893]
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:
  Grant us, O God, the spiritual awareness to know Your intimate 
presence in our lives. Enable us to see life through Your eyes, to see 
the beauty of Your creation, which You called good, and to see Your 
loving design in the people You place before us.
  Help us to hear through Your ears, to hear the laughter of children 
and the joy of the innocent, to hear the concerns and pain of our 
closest neighbors and of those lost in this world.
  Enable us to touch with Your strength, to use the power and influence 
You allow us access to, to touch the grieving with compassion, to calm 
the fearful with reassurance, and to guide the lost with Your 
direction.
  God, You have graced us always with Your company and have made clear 
Your intent that this relationship You have established with us is now 
ours to share, responding in faith to the one who loved us. Open our 
eyes and our ears to see and hear You, enliven our senses to be aware 
of You, and soften our hearts that we may know You.
  Then may our lives reflect the love and mercy that You have so 
graciously bestowed on us. As You work in us, may it be our aim to 
inspire others to desire all You wish them to receive from You.
  By Your bountiful grace and sure of Your abundant mercy, we offer our 
prayers in Your most holy name.
  Amen.

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