[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 107 (Wednesday, June 26, 2024)]
[House]
[Page H4155]
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:
  Eternal God, in this moment, take us away from the noise and demands 
of our work just the echoes of which seek to deafen our ears to Your 
voice. But speak through the clamor and silence all voices but Your 
own, that we would hear Your enduring Word for this day.
  As complex as today's circumstances may appear, let us pay heed to 
this simple fact: With You, O Lord, one day is as a thousand years and 
a thousand years are as one day. Today, may there fall on us a sense of 
Your timeless power. Thus, humbled before You, may we become more aware 
and let go of the fleeting things we seek to control.
  Give us a clearer understanding of Your perfect holiness, that our 
own accomplishments would not serve as the source of our pride or 
purpose.
  Open our eyes to Your infinite and beautiful creation, that we would 
put our own achievements in perspective, and yield ourselves to Your 
divine and gracious plan. May all that we strive to do serve to glorify 
You.
  In the wealth of Your everlasting love, may we be content to leave in 
Your hands the outcome of our best intentions, the resolution to our 
most complex concerns, and the answer to our deepest desires.
  In Your ageless name we pray.
  Amen.

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