Day 19 - 40 Days of Prayer - Corey Schlosser-Hall

My favorite prayer (aside from the Disciples Prayer) in worship is the prayer of confession. A few years ago some friends from my former church Mt. Baker Park PC in Seattle and I formed a band to play the music of U2 for worship, and have a blast playing together. Get this, an EP, a family physician, an environmental waste engineer, and a video documentarian for a regional news outlet, formed a band. No one but God pulls off good stuff like that. Ann Hedreen, an Elder at Mt. Baker Park PC wrote this prayer of confession for one of our worship services. We’ve used it each time. I think it’s an apropos confession as we approach GA as well:

Community Prayer of Confession

God forgive us for our love of stuff. For believing that being right is better than being in covenant. For believing that too much is not enough. For making our lives about getting, winning, acquiring, building, doing, achieving. Jesus did none of these. What he taught, what he knew, in the words of U2, is that if you want to kiss the sky, you better learn how to kneel. Forgive us for filling our lives with busyness, with distractions from your presence and still small voice. And forgive us for the creeping thought that we might lie beyond forgiveness, unworthy of being forgiven. For thinking that perhaps we have come to You--The Source of forgiveness--too many times to ask for it yet again; forgetting that You said You’d wait beyond the end of the world – even for us.

Corey Schlosser-Hall
Executive Presbyter
Presbytery of North Puget Sound