Lord, hear our prayer:

Mighty and awesome Lord, thank you that you have made us so that we can laugh and we can cry, we can work and we can play, we can rest and we can have fun. We thank you that you love us. We praise you that we can love other people and they can love us. Thank you most of all for Jesus. We praise you that through his life, death and resurrection he has shown us just how much you love us, and how much you want to change our lives. We ask your forgiveness that we find it so very easy to make promises, but so very hard to keep them. We ask our prayer in the name of Jesus Christ, the friend who helps us 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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