[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 148 (Wednesday, September 13, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H4275]
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:
  Ever wise and all-generous God, we pray Your wisdom as we seek to 
handle the trials that are set before us. In these days where we are 
met with the inscrutable crisis in Ukraine, we find we lack the clear 
answers we desire. We continue to search for the right and reasonable 
response to the atrocities being inflicted upon the Ukrainian people.
  Keep always before us the aim for just peace, that any decision made 
will serve to uphold or restore justice in a region threatened by 
despotism and oppression.
  Prevent us from making choices that would contribute to unnecessary 
escalation but keep us ever mindful of the need to uphold the common 
good. Remind each of us of our obligation to stem the humanitarian 
crisis this war has created not just in Ukraine but throughout the 
world.
  Ever wise and all-generous God, we pray Your wisdom. Be unsparing in 
granting that wisdom to this body, especially in times such as these.
  In Your everlasting name, we pray.
  Amen.

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