Lord, hear our prayer:
Father, we pray for ourselves. We are your creation. We acknowledge that we are wonderfully made. We are capable of amazing acts of kindness, love and understanding. Yet we also know our need of your healing, forgiving, transforming grace. We ask you to touch our hearts with your love, our lives with your grace and our lips with your truth. Father, enable us so to live that others may live in you. Lord, empower us so to speak that others may glorify you. We ask our prayers in the name of Christ, the Lord of time and space and eternity.
Amen.