[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 114 (Wednesday, July 10, 2024)]
[House]
[Pages H4539-H4540]
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:
  Heavenly Father, we pray Your intervention on behalf of the children 
of Ukraine, Israel, Gaza, and all other places around the world who 
find themselves caught in the snares of war, trapped in conflict zones, 
the innocent casualties of our warfare.
  God, how is it that the most vulnerable among us have become the 
targets of indiscriminate yet deliberate bombing? Holy Lord, how has 
humanity let its sense of justice erode to the point where even 
children's hospitals become targets? When did it become commonplace 
that babies and toddlers are made victims of vengeful kidnapping?
  It is clear that Your kingdom alone is the place of safety and 
spiritual sanctuary for our children. Lord, let Your kingdom come, Your 
will be done here in this broken world.
  Silence our guns and still the weapons which threaten the heritage 
our children long to receive from our hands.
  See that we do not despise any of these little ones but reveal to us 
the road to peace, that once again we would provide a future for these 
children that is free from fear, danger, and sadness.
  Into the protection of Your everlasting arms we place our children 
this day. May the strength of Your name be their hope and salvation.
  Amen.

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