Opening Prayer
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11/07/2025
Chaplain Margaret Grun Kibben
Most gracious God, we appeal to You, laying before You our best–laid plans and our last resorts in our effort to set this time of upheaval to rights.
If these last weeks have taught us anything, it is that, though we have worked, even pleaded, for resolution of the discord and disagreement, for relief from this political impasse and any intransigence, and for the provision of resources to those who bear the relentless burdens of these days, we have learned that, without Your intercession, even our all falls short.
Only Your grace is sufficient for us, for Your strength is made perfect in our weakness and made available to us when we acknowledge our want.
For Your sake, may we quiet our heated provocations, confront our hardheaded positions, and confess our harsh attitudes toward colleagues with whom we must work to move forward.
Then, may Your sovereign power rest on us, and the work You have called us to do be blessed.
In the strength found only in Your name do we pray. Amen.