[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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