[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 149 (Tuesday, September 24, 2024)]
[House]
[Page H5659]
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:
  From the bottom of our hearts, O Lord, we offer our prayers to You. 
Our whole being, we lay before You, trusting that You will receive us 
and will receive our prayers in the mercy of Your loving-kindness.
  Now, having given ourselves to You, our hopes, our fears, our plans, 
and our control, we pray that we will have the faith to lean wholly on 
You and not on our own understanding, that we will believe in Your 
sovereignty that we don't feel like we have to figure everything out on 
our own.
  Instead, may we yield our whole selves, submitting both our pride and 
our will to Your leading. May we loose our grip on the reins and let 
You direct our paths. In everything we do today and everywhere we go, 
may we listen for and heed Your voice.
  In this may our whole spirit, soul, and body be found blameless in 
Your sight.
  In Your gracious name, we pray.
  Amen.

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