Saturday, 12 April 2014

Pearl of great price




Merciful God

We come to you in confession

We who know of your great love

Who have sat at your feet and known we are precious.

We who have reached out and touched your cloak and felt your healing come to us

Who have known the freedom of handing our heavy things to you

And we confess that sometimes

We hold this pearl of great price

Close to our chests

Bury it deep in our pocket

Keep it somewhere safe where it won’t get us in trouble.

And sometimes we get so used to having it around we take it for granted and lose sight of the treasure that it is.

Forgive us.

Your great love so lavishly and abundantly given

Is not something to be hidden away.

Teach us how to share it, to be aglow with it, to be overflowing with it.

In Jesus’ name Amen.

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