Opening Prayer
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03/31/2025
Chaplain Margaret Grun Kibben
Call us back to You, O Lord. Receive us once again from the wide and scattered places that our own choices have led us. Take us up into Your merciful embrace and remind us that You have never forsaken us and never will.
Then give us new and undivided hearts. Grant us a new spirit, a spirit renewed by Your forgiveness and recreated by the power of Your own Holy Spirit.
Remove from us our hearts of stone, our stubbornness and obstinance, our inclination to dig in our heels and hold on to the reins rather than yield to Your leading.
Give us instead hearts of integrity and tenderness, that we would obey Your commands and live lives in steadfast service to the people whose welfare You have entrusted to us.
Unto Your grace plan, we commend this day. Into Your keeping, we offer our best efforts, and in Your merciful name, we pray. Amen.
Ezekiel 11:19