Opening Prayer
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10/28/2025
Chaplain Margaret Grun Kibben
Creator God, repair and renew this world, the work of Your wisdom, designed to reveal Your own divine will, for we are broken and divided, in need and at odds, angry and hungry, unnerved and un–moored from the foundation of unity You have intended for us.
Whatever our pretenses for separation, whether dissatisfaction with our situation or disagreement with the other side, we deserve Your rebuke, for You compel us as believers to respect the body You have put together, admonishing us to have mutual and equal concern for one another.
In these days, when parts of the body are suffering, reveal to us how all of us suffer with them. When we cease to put love over legislation, our integrity weakens.
When we honor one another, working to ensure each may enjoy sure and certain security of one's basic needs and demonstrating our shared commitment to the common good, we then reveal Your grace plan and glorify You with our mutual love.
Grant us then the humility to serve this body as we seek to serve this country and You in this time.
In Your sovereign name we pray. Amen.