[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 144 (Tuesday, September 17, 2024)]
[House]
[Pages H5244-H5245]
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, every good and perfect gift is from You. 237 years ago, 
Benjamin Franklin prayed to You, Father of lights, to illuminate our 
understanding of this mantle that You have placed on the people of the 
United States. For it is by Your generous hand that this Nation was 
given freedom and liberty, as well as the noble and weighty 
responsibility to govern with integrity and honor.
  Today, as we celebrate the signing of our Constitution on this day in 
1787, we pray that we have stewarded Your gifts faithfully, as our 
Founders intended. We recommit ourselves to forming a

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more perfect Union, to establishing justice, to ensuring domestic 
tranquility, to providing for the common defense, to promoting the 
general welfare, and to securing the blessings of liberty for ourselves 
and our prosperity.
  More importantly, on this day, we renew our dependence on Your 
guidance as we do our part to uphold our Republic. In our efforts to 
preserve this democracy, may we continue to seek Your righteousness and 
to rely on Your gracious guidance. For in You, God of our past, our 
present, and our future, there is no shadow or change, no failing of 
Your compassion.
  Great is Your faithfulness now and always.
  Amen.

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