Eternal God, we come looking for You, longing for Your deliverance, straining to hear Your promises. We approach You in prayer, waiting, perhaps even desperate, to hear a word from You.
How long must we endure before we receive Your comfort?
How long must we wait before we are assured of Your help? Speak Your word of hope.
There are many who would fill the silence with their own words of pride and arrogance, lies and falsehoods.
When will You show judgment on their unfaithfulness? Speak Your word of truth.
Those who persecute, jeer, and abuse without cause have consumed our energy and sapped us of strength. Speak Your word of comfort.
May we refuse to yield to the pressure to turn away from Your decrees. May we obey Your statutes and not forsake our trust in You. Speak Your word of guidance.
In Your mercy, revive us. Speak Your life–giving word.
O God, speak into this day and in all that it presents us, for we hope to hear Your word of love.
For it is in Your word that we find our strength and in Your name we pray. Amen.
While I reiterate the professions of my dependence upon Heaven as the source of all public and private blessings; I will observe that the general prevalence of piety, philanthropy, honesty, industry, and economy seems, in the ordinary course of human affairs particularly necessary for advancing and conforming the happiness of our country.
—George Washington
Answering a letter from the General Assembly of Presbyterian Churches in the United States, May 1789
Join the Chaplain's Office to pray the Rosary virtually via Zoom at 11 am each Wednesday morning for the intentions of the Congress and the nation.
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Coffee with a Congressional Jewish Staff Assn. Board Member
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Sign up to get a virtual coffee with one of the board members over the next few weeks so we can get to know you better! This is open to Hill staff and interns at this time; we encourage any prospective members to come out for Booze with Jews!
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Join Chaplain Black for his weekly Senate Bible Study reflection, recorded on Zoom. Contact Jody_Bogoslavski@chaplain.senate.gov to get on their list to receive the recording.
Join Chaplain Kibben for the next in our occasional series of chats via Zoom. Email Karen.Bronson@mail.house.gov for the zoom link to register. Open to Congressional staff.
From the Congressional Jewish Staff Association
Friends! Don't get left with nothing to do but sit on your couch dipping apples in honey. Save the date for Rosh Hashanah (September 5 – 7, 2021) and Yom Kippur (September 15 – 16, 2021). Many local synagogues have already released tickets for services. If we can be of assistance connecting any of our members to local Jewish organizations during the High Holiday season, please contact us at infocjsa@gmail.com and we will do our best to make the connection.