[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 24 (Friday, February 9, 2024)]
[House]
[Page H539]
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:
  Merciful God, we offer to You this day and our everydays--our 
ordinary lives of work and play, and the extraordinary moments--the 
challenging and the rewarding. We place all of this before You as an 
offering of gratitude for the grace and love You have shown us.
  As we proceed into our day, help us not to become fixated on the 
popular appetite for greed and power, caught up in the widespread 
inclination toward selfishness and exclusion. Prevent us from becoming 
so comfortable with this status quo that we would not be compelled to 
act without thought or consideration for truth and justice.
  Instead, may we fix our attention on You. Change us from the inside 
out that we will be able to discern what it is You desire and that we 
would be quick to carry it out.
  Holy God, bring out the best in us this day as we mature in faith and 
walk in the way You would have us go.
  Upheld by Your righteous name we pray.
  Amen.

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