Opening Prayer
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10/22/2026
Chaplain Margaret Grun Kibben
Holy God, we want to know you. We want to know what you want of us, what you are doing in our lives, what we mean to you.
Help us to see that to know you is to keep your commands and to allow your word to shape our lives.
In obeying your word, may we come to understand more fully your perfect love for us.
Create in us a desire to follow you, for our lives should be more than lives of obedience, but of character. Show us what it means to pattern our lives according to your will, that we would be humble, intentional, and selfless.
Then let us, in our daily walk, not hold on to hatred or resentment, bitterness or acrimony, lest we become so focused on these dark thoughts that we ourselves are blinded and others cannot see your light in our lives.
Sure of your truth and pardoned by your mercy, may we offer ourselves to your leading today and in the days to come.
In the light of your truth and in the strength of your name, we pray. Amen.
1 John 2:3–11