Lord, hear our prayer:

Lord, we thank you that when the world has done its worst, and the pressures of life have taken their toll, your love still holds us. When our hopes are dashed and we are afraid, your love gives us encouragement. When our faith wears paper thin and we are hanging on by the skin of our teeth, when we fail, fall or feel defeated by life, when everything becomes too much for us and we cannot cope any more, your loves holds, heals and makes us whole. In the name of 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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