Prayer of Confession: Reconciliation
Here’s a
prayer of confession from the Starters
for Sunday website.
Prayer of Confession
Eternal
God,
Creator
of all that is,
In you we
live and move and have our being.
You have
placed us on earth
and
sustained our being through the produce of the land
and the
cleanness of the air we breathe.
You have
made us for each
to tend
and care for the weak
and
ensure a just sharing of the earth’s resources.
But we
are part of a proud and hard-hearted people
who hoard
what the earth provides
and seem
loathe to share the fruits of our labours,
who live
for today with little thought for tomorrow
who are
afraid to let pain and suffering affect us.
Incarnate
God, you know us in our inner being.
In your
grace you offer us forgiveness
even
before we have the chance to articulate our sorrow.
You
embrace us in all our sinfulness
and in
doing so give us the chance to start again
to learn
from the example you have given us in Jesus,
who chose
the way of the Cross
that all
might know the depth of your love for all you have made.
Spirit of
God
open our
hearts and minds
that we
may grasp your forgiveness,
and
forgiven seek to forgive others
and to
live a life of reconciling love
modelled
on the example of Jesus Christ
in whose
name we make this prayer. Amen
~ from
the Church of Scotland’s Starters
for Sunday suggestions for Lent
4C, from the Very Rev. Dr. Sheilagh Kesting.
http://www.churchofscotland.org.uk/
