[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 6 (Thursday, January 11, 2024)]
[House]
[Pages H64-H65]
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:
  Today, O Lord, may we hear Your voice. Inspire us not to harden our 
hearts, as we are so often inclined to do. Keep us from our quarreling 
when we find ourselves without answers, without direction. Save us from 
our anger when we are tested by demands and doubts and frustrated with 
misgivings and mistrust.
  Though we test Your patience day after day, do not be angry with us 
nor abandon us even when we turn away from You.

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  Show us how to mend fences with one another, to turn disputes into 
discussions, to bridge impasses with compassion, and to set aside our 
irritation and yield to Your direction.
  Today, O Lord, may we hear Your voice and set our will aside and obey 
Your own.
  In Your merciful name we pray.
  Amen.

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