[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 188 (Tuesday, November 14, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H5733]
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:
  Unto You, O Lord, we offer our prayers. Unto You who is able to do 
immeasurably more than all we could ask or imagine, we lift up our 
hopes, our fears, our anxieties, and our expectations to You and pray 
that Your power would be at work within us as we serve You in this 
place.
  For we are Your servants and public servants graced with both the 
ability and opportunity to exercise our responsibility to the 
governance of this country, the support and defense of its 
Constitution, and the preservation of the welfare of our fellow 
Americans.
  Grant, then, that with these profound duties before us that we remain 
faithful to what is true, what is honorable, and what is right, that 
neither adamance nor ignorance would blind us to righteousness. May we 
safeguard what is pure and lovely, that neither ill will nor self-
interest would poison our discourse.
  But with boldness and confidence, with our faith in You, may we gain 
access to Your wisdom and direction in accordance with Your will.
  In the power of Your name we dare to pray.
  Amen.

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