Lord, hear our prayer:

Father, we praise you for the way that again and again you overwhelm us with your love and that you go on reaching down to us to lift us, to guide our steps and to help us to begin all over again. We praise you for your demonstration of your love in Jesus; that your love for us simply knows no limits. So often we are unable to love each other and we find the cost of caring too much to bear. We do not find it easy to forgive those who have hurt us, let us down and spoilt our lives. We do not find it easy to understand how it is that your love for us is so deep and so real that there is nothing we can do that will mean you ever stop loving and wanting the best for us. We praise you that your love is strong and demanding and requires a strong response. We praise you for Christ through whom you have dealt with all that our lives were and offered us the opportunity to begin again.

Amen.

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