[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 70 (Saturday, April 20, 2024)]
[House]
[Page H2561]
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:
  Oh Lord our God, we approach Your throne of grace that we may receive 
Your help in this time of need. You have laid on each of us a high and 
daunting calling to serve You and this world with humility and 
sincerity.
  On this day especially, may we bring with us to our decisionmaking 
not earthly wisdom, but a strength of conscience and integrity of faith 
so that when this day is done, we may face this Nation, our world, and 
each other without reproach. More importantly, we pray that, in all 
that we accomplish this day, we would be found blameless in Your sight.
  For it is only by Your grace that we are where we are and who we are. 
May Your grace toward us not be in vain, but may our efforts today 
bring faithful testimony to Your grace and work within us.
  In the name of the one whose grace is our salvation, we pray.
  Amen.

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