[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 200 (Tuesday, December 5, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H6118]
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:
  Our Father, creator--the one who made us who we are and who has given 
us all we have, as we call on Your name, may You be glorified.
  Reveal Your heavenly splendor that we would be assured of the 
eternity You have promised each one of us. May our life here on Earth 
reflect this gracious design which is beyond our human imaginings.
  Set the world right as we seek to serve You and allow what we do on 
Earth to be the unveiling of Your divine will for Your creation.
  Provide for us this day the nourishment we need to sustain the work 
You have set before us to do. Strengthen our spirits by the bread that 
is Your word, that our faith will uphold us in the face of anything 
that we encounter.
  We ask Your forgiveness for all that we have done or left undone 
which has caused pain and sadness. As we receive Your forgiveness, may 
we live into Your mercy by finding it within ourselves to forgive 
others.
  Keep us safe today from all evil directed toward us and from all harm 
which our own temptations inflict upon us.
  To You, O Lord, does everything on Earth owe its life. May all that 
lives and breathes glorify Your holy name this day.
  Amen.

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