The Office of the Chaplain United States House of Representatives

Opening Prayer

03/27/2026
Reverend Roger Reece

Gracious and loving God, we come before You, quieting our hearts in Your presence.

As Your Word reminds us again and again:

  ‘‘The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.''
  ‘‘He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul.''

Father, we lift up those who serve in this place. O God, grant them wisdom, as You have promised that those who ask will receive.

Give them clarity in their decisions, compassion in their care, and humility in their service.

In moments of burden, dear God, be their strength. In the moments of uncertainty, dear God, be their light.

Help them remember, Father, that every person bears Your image and is worthy of that dignity and care.

May Your peace rest in this place, and may Your grace guide every step.

In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen.

Thought of the Week

When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy. Those Divine demands which sound to our natural ears most like those of a despot and least like those of a lover, in fact, marshal us where we should want to go if we knew what we wanted. He demands our worship, our obedience, our prostration... A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell. But God wills our good, and our good is to love him. That is, whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want.

—C.S. Lewis

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