PRAYER OF AWARENESS AND RECONCILIATION God of all creation, following your path is not easy. It seems to us that you never take the easy way - indeed, your Way is always surprising. Forgive us our blind stumbling, and guide us back to your path. … [Continue reading] about confession: your path, your way
confession: we keep you at arm’s length
You, Lord, are closer to us than breathing, nearer than hands and feet. And yet we so often try to keep you at arm’s length, even as we beg for you to be with us. We close the door to protect our privacy, believing security can be gained by keeping … [Continue reading] about confession: we keep you at arm’s length
confession: we’d rather keep the door closed
One: You, Lord, are Alpha and Omega—beginning and end. But in between sometimes it feels like we are on our own, and then the illusion of control is so seductive. All: Forgive us when we try to control you, insisting that your will must … [Continue reading] about confession: we’d rather keep the door closed
CTW for Ash Wednesday
One: This is the season of Lent, a time when we recognize the ways we have moved away from God, a time when we look deeply into our lives and see the ways we have not lived faithfully. Lent is also a time of reorientation and renewal; a time of … [Continue reading] about CTW for Ash Wednesday
CTW: come in and go out
One: God invites us to come in and go out and find pasture: All: to come into the kingdom, into abundant life, into the light; to go out to serve, out to live our faith, out to be the Body of Christ. One: Christ calls us to hear … [Continue reading] about CTW: come in and go out
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