O holy God:
We thank you for the great love you have shown us in Jesus Christ.
You could have chosen to punish us. You could have chosen to destroy us for the ways we have failed to acknowledge you. You could have responded in so many ways. And you would have been justified.
Instead, you looked upon each and every human life and were moved with compassion. You are more aware of the ways we can be unlovable, and yet you have loved us more than anyone. You responded to our fallen ways be taking flesh, joining your life to our lives, getting your hands dirty, becoming weak like us, suffering and dying for us.
So Father, open our hearts today. Help us to be real before you. Help us to lay our lives open before you, with all that makes us strong and beautiful and with all our broken and shameful place, too. Heal us, change us, remake us, restore us. Fill our lives with joy as we enter into a life-long relationship of being made strong in your strength, being made whole in your holiness.
Give us a heart like yours, free from condemnation, full of compassion, full of grace. Give us a heart to put people first, to reach out with love and goodness and to offer healing to hurting lives.
O God, may you blessing rest upon the land in which we have been graced to live, upon the leaders who have authority over us, upon your Church proclaiming your Gospel throughout the world. Bring healing and hope to those who are sick and grieving. Use us to bring win the lost of our community to new life in your Son Jesus Christ, who taught us to pray saying…
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