Opening Prayer
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11/12/2025
Chaplain Margaret Grun Kibben
Lead us, O Lord, this day on paths of righteousness, that emerging from these long weeks of trial and testing, we may discern what You would have us learn and how we are now to respond in faith. This shutdown has grated nerves and rattled souls. None have come through this impasse unscathed.
Remind us that the strength of Your presence and guiding hand have always been with us and remain with us still, so that having persevered we may learn the importance of patience, most especially with each other, as we commit to finishing the work set before us.
In having endured, may we receive the wisdom that persistence reveals, calling us to lead with humility and to respond with mercy.
Lord, grant that this ordeal would mature and perfect our faith, not in the process, but faith in Your provision, not in seeking victory, but in pursuing virtue. Going forward may we prove worthy of the responsibility You have given us and faithful to the stewardship of the limitless blessings You have entrusted to our care.
We commit to Your will the work of this day, that it would glorify You and advance the work of Your kingdom.
In Your sovereign name we pray. Amen.