Opening Prayer
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10/14/2025
Chaplain Margaret Grun Kibben
God, our creator, You who have reached out to us in love and graced us, undeservedly, with gifts of encouragement, opportunity, and responsibility, make Your will known to us this day.
Reach out to us again and break through the noise of our own making, the disparate sounds of our voices and competing volitions which deafen us to hearing the wisdom You offer us.
Grant us again Your mercy, as unworthy as we are, and reveal to us how our efforts to fix things, to settle accounts, and effect our own outcomes have veered widely from the faith You ask of us and the trust You want from us.
Put a fresh heart in us that it would reflect Your desire for peace and amity. Invigorate and motivate our work that it would advance Your intentions for the challenging moments in which we find ourselves, and enliven with Your spirit and inspire the words that we use that they would reveal the love You would have us share in our dealings with each other.
Lord of our lives, we lay our own will down that Your will only will be done.
With the strength found in You, we call on Your name as we offer our prayers this day. Amen.