[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 20 (Monday, February 5, 2024)]
[House]
[Pages H393-H394]
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:
  We pray to You, O Lord, to work among and within us as we seek to 
serve You this day.
  Open the closed doors of our hearts and encourage us to unlock all 
that bars us from discovering and receiving You in our lives and in 
this place.
  Open our ears that we would hear Your voice calling us to serve You 
unequivocally. You have summoned us to this esteemed court of law that 
we would uphold Your righteousness and render Your justice.
  Open our minds that we would grasp the knowledge and insight You 
offer us. In the most disagreeable moments, You challenge us not only 
to be tolerant of others, but to be open to the truths You teach us 
through these encounters.
  Open our eyes that we will see the wonder of Your love, the spiritual 
beauty that resides in the souls of those whom and with whom we serve. 
In them, may we bear witness to Your everlasting faithfulness to all 
people and Your eternal presence among even the least of these.
  Then open our hands that we may share the richness of the blessings 
You have bestowed on us. Deliver us from all selfishness and purge us 
from the meanness within us that desperately clings to Your grace gifts 
without regard for Your counsel that we have been so blessed so as to 
be a blessing.

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  All that we are and all that we have is Yours, O Lord. This day, help 
us to be faithful stewards of Your generous grace.
  In your merciful name we pray.
  Amen.

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