Confession: The Gift of Time


Here’s a prayer of confession written by Anna from Grace Church, an alternative worship community in Ealing, London.

Prayer of Confession

O God, you are slow to anger and swift to have mercy;
Forgive us when we treat time as a commodity or an enemy,
when we abuse your gift of time.
In our fastness and our slowness,
help us to keep pace with you.
Free us to live in your time, a new time,
in which there is a time for everything under heaven,
and slow is not too slow, and fast is not too fast.
Transform us into people who see time as a gift and a friend,
who live as if we have time,
because we know that your time will never cease.
Through Jesus we pray, Amen.

~ written by Anna, and posted on the Grace website worship archive.  http://www.freshworship.org/