[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 38 (Friday, March 1, 2024)]
[House]
[Page H777]
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:
  Holy and omnipotent God, by You all things were created in Heaven and 
Earth, visible and invisible. All things were created through You and 
for You. All of us are evidence of Your handiwork.
  Open our eyes then to see Your image in the multitude and myriad of 
people we encounter this day. Though we, too often, come from opposing 
points of view, hold a variety of contrary opinions, defend 
antithetical positions, as human beings created by Your divine hand, 
though we are many and diverse, we are all one body.
  Remind us over and again that we belong to each other, like different 
parts of the whole. We need what the others have in order to represent 
the one body to which You have called us.
  Grant that Your peace would rule in each of our hearts, a peace that 
has called this body to being. O Lord, hear our thankfulness for the 
purpose to which You have called us. Praise be to You who are before 
all things and in whom all things hold together.
  Amen.

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