This prayer of confession originally appeared in "Rattling Heaven's Doors—Week 1: Our Father in Heaven, Hallowed Be Your Name."
Prayer of Confession
We confess that we are a brokenhearted people, unable to change.
We do not hallow your name in your children, made in your image, who go to school hungry or not at all, in the emotionally and mentally fragile who walk the streets alone.
We confess that we are a brokenhearted people.
We do not hallow your name in children sent to war, in the elderly left homeless, in our inability to forgive.
We do not hallow your name or each other—the ones who sit or walk beside us without hope.
We are a broken people.
Song
“How I Have Longed” Winter
We bring our broken lives to you, the One who hallows life. Encircle us with your healing, won through sacrifice, with your many-colored cord of grace.
Extend to us this cord of life, assure us of your forgiveness, and give us the courage to honor the holiness of your hallowed name.
Holy is your Name!
We are threads bound together in that name: friends, brothers, sisters of Christ. A hundred hands, held together and washed by the blood of the lamb.
