[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 128 (Tuesday, July 25, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H3905]
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 eternal God, You have made everything suitable for its time. 
Give us pause to consider the beauty inherent in this day and the 
rightness of all that is around us at this very moment.
  What a challenge that presents us, as there is so much that is far 
from beautiful, so much that isn't right. Yet You have set eternity in 
our heart, and this is a mystery we cannot comprehend, we are blind to 
Your creative and redemptive work in our lives.
  Give us faith, O God, in Your eternal purpose. Grant us the faith to 
believe that You see all things past, present, and future. All the 
things of yesterday, today, and tomorrow are subject to You.
  Remind us that You are outside and above time. Your power to guide 
and direct our steps and order our days is not restricted to the 
limitations of our linear understanding.
  In our haste to control the chaos around us, in our anxiety to the 
face of uncertainty, in our impatience to rectify the wrongness we 
battle daily, grant us a sense of Your steadfast love and sovereign 
protection, which was granted us in eternity past, abides with us now, 
and will guide us in the future.
  Sure of Your everlasting kindness, we offer our prayers in Your most 
holy name.
  Amen.

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