[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 21 (Tuesday, February 6, 2024)]
[House]
[Page H435]
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:
  Sovereign God, You have marked out our appointed times in history and 
provided the time and space for our lives so that we would seek You, 
reach to You, and find You, for You are never far from us. For in You 
we live and move and have our being.
  So into Your hands we place the U.S. House of Representatives and all 
who labor therein. From this body there is revealed an intricate 
tapestry of hopes and fears, possibility and challenge. Into this 
unique quilt You have woven our talents and treasures, our time and our 
effort.
  We pray then that You would use this sometimes unlikely and unruly 
montage of Members. Reveal Your mercy in our doubt, and even in the 
wavering of our faith, reveal Your glory.
  In our busyness may we find Your quietness. In our quietness may we 
receive Your purpose. Let the favor of the Lord be upon us. Establish 
for us the work of our day, this day and every day.
  In the power to be found only in Your name, we pray.
  Amen.

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