Opening Prayer
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06/08/2026
Chaplain Margaret Grun Kibben
Our King and our God, your throne endures forever. You rule with a scepter of equity. You love the right and despise the wrong.
Humbly we come before you with the prayers of this body and of this nation. You have blessed us richly, guiding the founding of this democracy with the enduring virtues of freedom and liberty, peace and justice. You have raised up leaders and citizens whose blood, sweat, and tears have watered our soil, bringing forth the fruits of your planting.
Grant, we pray, your continued blessing upon this land we love, that America would reflect its noble heritage and the lessons learned from both the triumphs and failings of its past.
Give us each a renewed spirit of dependence on you and a deep thirst for your direction, that we may preserve the blessings we have inherited and pass them faithfully to those who follow after us.
May peace and prosperity be our hope, and your abiding and steadfast love and salvation our reward.
In all generations may your name be celebrated, that all peoples may praise you forever and ever. Amen.
Psalm 45:6, 17