    [Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 39 (Thursday, February 27, 2025)]
    [House]
    [Page H883]
    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:
      Be thou our vision, O Lord of our hearts. Illuminate our paths. Guide
    us to see what You would have us see and enable us to live this day as
    You would have us do.
      In Your light do we see the light of hope and peace. Heal our eyes,
    for when they are healthy, they reflect Your light. But in these times,
    when darkness overcomes our souls, how much greater that darkness is
    when Your light does not shine forth through them.
      Yours is the light that shines in our darkness. Nothing else matters,
    naught is all else to us, except Your companionship leading us on Your
    path of righteousness. Show forth Your presence in our lives and on our
    journey of faith.
      For Your presence is our light, in work or play, in waking or
    sleeping. On this day, be our best thought in all the things that
    invade our minds, and our only consideration when night fails to put
    our worries to rest.
      In the certainty that You abide with us in the darkness and in the
    light, may we find the joy You desire for us to experience in You this
    day.
      God our light, we offer our prayers in Your loving name.
      Amen.

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