God of the peasants and the homeless,
God of the desperately poor and the cynically rich,
God of the needy and the greedy,
God of numbing bureaucracies,
God above the warring nations,
Bless and humble us with your presence.
We are waiting. We are awaited.
We confess to you our sins
of action and inaction, of silence and speech.
Through our misuse of power in personal,
communal, national, and international life.
Through searching for security in all
the wrong ways and our use of technologies
that endanger the earth and all living things.
Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy.
Our world grows daily more dangerous
and distressing, especially to the least
among us. We thank you that you do not leave
us comfortless, that your Spirit speaks
to our spirits, and that in you
there is a future with hope.