    [Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 38 (Wednesday, February 26, 2025)]
    [House]
    [Pages H843-H844]
    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:
      Most Holy God, let Your goodness pass before us. In this day and in
    this place, when so much around us blinds us with contention and
    confusion,

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    come before this body and guard us with Your guiding presence to lead
    us through the wilderness of unease and uncertainty, differences and
    discord.
      Proclaim Your name in our presence, that the sound of the name that
    is above all names will direct our ears to hear You in the
    deliberations around us and will focus our minds on the importance of
    the work You set before us.
      In You then, God, will we trust when You show grace to those whom You
    have chosen to be gracious. To You we will be faithful and not question
    when You show mercy to those on whom You have chosen to show mercy, but
    may we be obedient when You send us forth to be vessels of that grace
    and mercy even to those whom You have challenged us to serve, and may
    we be thankful when that grace and mercy fall on us.
      Spirit of our gracious and merciful God, fall afresh on us as we
    offer our prayers for this day.
      Amen.

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