Here is an Easter confession from the River of Life website.
Easter Confession
Christ, we come to the empty tomb,
we see our own death,
we see our own tomb, we see our own emptiness.
And we remember how we have treated other people—
members of our family, friends and neighbours.
Lord we come to your tomb,
we see a hungry world before us,
the pain of starving children,
the guilt of war on our hands,
and we know that collectively we share in those injustices.
Lord we come to the empty tomb,
we search within ourselves and we cannot escape what we are,
people caught up in the pain of our own wrong doing,
for some a deep sense of loneliness
and a frustration of what we would be but are not.
Lord when we come to the empty tomb,
we lay before you our pain,
our emptiness and look to you for hope.
People of God,
why do you seek the living among the dead in an empty tomb?
Are you afraid, are you uncertain, and are you uncomfortable here?
Our wounds are deep,
we have turned away from that man,
we have broken with him
and seek his fellowship.
Do not dwell on your wounds any longer
for he has risen to heal you,
he has risen to forgive you;
he has risen to change us all and bind us together now.
Christ has risen to forgive us.
Thanks be to God.
— excerpted from Service of Holy Communion 2010, posted on the River of Life website.
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