Lord, hear our prayer:

Lord, we come to you whose name and nature is love. We come to reach out to you who in Christ have already searched for us and found us. We come with our darkness to walk in his light. We come with our sorrow to be filled with his joy. We come with our shame to receive his forgiveness and we come with our failure and weakness to be strengthened by him. We come to worship the one who has loved us to the uttermost. We come to love the one who first loved us. We pray this in Jesus’ precious name.

Amen.

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