Lord, hear our prayer:

Lord, we have come to wait, to wait in Christ. We have come as very different people. We have different hopes and fears, different needs and different questions. We have different dreams and different concerns. We have different hurts and different experiences. We have received different gifts and different talents and we have different expectations and different ways of worshipping you. But we come because we are one in Christ, who calls us to come.

Amen.

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