Lord, hear our prayer:

Lord, when we stand in your presence, all our pride and self-sufficiency, our self-interest and our self-satisfaction are exposed as the self-delusions they are. Lord, when you come to us, our superstitions, our lies, our half-truths and our self-deceit crumble like dust before you. The selfish way we make use of each other, the way we look down in contempt on other people, our vanity and our self-righteousness are shown up in all their poverty and emptiness. Father, we seek your forgiveness and resist your life-renewing Spirit no longer. Lift us up and enable us to celebrate your love made known to us in the risen Christ.

Amen.

Some minor adaptation on some prayers.
David Clowes, 500 Prayers For All Occasions © 2003 by David C Cook Publishing
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