[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 170 (Tuesday, October 17, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H5017]
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, we offer ourselves to You this day--a sacrifice we entrust 
to Your keeping, and we pray that You would find our gift pleasing in 
Your good and perfect will.
  If we are found wanting, if we fall short of Your desires for us, 
show us how to renew our hearts and minds that they would be 
transformed and better able to discern what is good and acceptable in 
Your eyes.
  In this one body of lawmakers, we have many Members, a representation 
not just of the diversity that is our country, but of the variety of 
gifts each has been given. On this day of choice, give us the vision to 
see how You have gifted each one, and how You call each to exercise 
their responsibilities according to the grace You have shown them.
  Remind us that though we are many, we are members of one another. Out 
of many, may one emerge, one common purpose we each share to serve this 
Nation wisely, with purpose and compassion, with enthusiasm and 
discernment, with strength and with prudence, with determination and 
with humility, always in service to You and devoted to each other in 
love.
  Teach us this day how to rejoice in hope, how to be patient in 
affliction, and how to persevere in prayer.
  In Your hands we place the outcome of this day and in Your name are 
we bold to pray.
  Amen.

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