[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 106 (Tuesday, June 25, 2024)]
[House]
[Page H4127]
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:
  Almighty and holy God, You are our God, and we earnestly seek for 
You.
  From deep within our being, there is a longing for You. Like thirst 
in a dry and tired desert, so we, weary of warfare, overwhelmed by 
these many days void of peace, long for the renewal that comes only 
from You. We cry to You from our wilderness of uncertainty and unrest 
and pray the respite of Your presence.
  Breathe again Your spirit into our spirits. Form our minds to seek 
You. Turn our hearts that we would again love You; that in our disquiet 
and restlessness, we would once more find our rest in You; in our 
hunger and hopelessness, we would seek to discover the eternal 
satisfaction only You can provide.
  Place now Your hand on our lives and guide us in this day ahead, so 
that however we may falter or fail, Your everlasting arms underneath 
will uphold us in our service to You in this place.
  In Your eternal name, we pray.
  Amen.

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