[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 172 (Thursday, October 19, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H5031]
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:
  Compassionate God, overwhelmed, overwrought, or just plain over the 
circumstances in which we find ourselves today, would that we heed Your 
counsel not to be anxious about anything, but instead in prayer and 
supplication, with thanksgiving, pause to make our requests known to 
You.
  With consternation over the discordant concerns in this Chamber, in 
prayer and supplication, may we set aside our differences and in this 
sacred moment, together make our requests known to You.
  With deep disquiet for the countless threats to peace and security 
across the globe to which we have obligation to attend, in prayer and 
supplication, may we acknowledge Your direction over our efforts for 
the work before us, and together make our requests known to You.
  With silent petition for our individual grief and pain which know no 
boundary between work and life, may we in prayer and supplication, 
yield to Your divine healing, as together we make our requests known to 
You.
  With thanksgiving and with hearts united, if only for this brief 
moment, may we claim Your peace which passes all understanding and 
which will transcend the anxieties of this day.
  Guard our hearts and our minds that we would bear witness in this 
place to the sure and certain hope to be found in Your sovereign care 
and steadfast love.
  Amen.

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