Our pastor has introduced the practice of saying a confession together in church. He used this one recently, and I thought I would share it here as I found the words particularly striking and helpful:
Gracious God,
Our sins are too heavy to carry,
too real to hide and too deep to undo.
Forgive what our lips tremble to name,
what our hearts can no longer bear
and what has become for us a consuming fire of judgment.
Set us free from a past that we cannot change;
Open to us a future in which we can be changed,
and grant us grace to grow more and more
in your likeness and image
through Jesus Christ, the light of the world.
Amen.
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