Here’s a
creative prayer of confession for the whole congregation. It was written by Carolyn Brown.
She
suggests: Invite
worshipers to pray with their hands making the obvious motions as the leader prays the following
prayers of confession and intercession. It helps if the leader also makes
the hand motions in a very easy to see manner.
Intergenerational Prayer
of Confession:
Hands
God
you created our hands beautiful and capable but…
Too
often we use them to grab what we want
We
ball them up into fists to hit.
We
use them to hug only ourselves.
We
hide them behind our backs
pretending
there is nothing we could do to help when we know there is.
So,
we turn our hands up to you asking for forgiveness.
Forgive
all the bad we have done with our hands.
Wash
our hands and make them clean.
Lead
us to use our hands well.
Teach
us to open our hands to share with others.
Give
us the power to shake hands with our neighbors.
Show
us how to join hands with our neighbors to build your kingdom of love.
We
pray in Jesus’ name and remembering his loving hands.
Amen
— written by Carolyn Brown, from her excellent Worshipping
with Children website. http://www.worshipingwithchildren.blogspot.com/
