Prayer

PEACE WITH CREATION

Creator of all, 

we praise you for the gift of life

and for the faith that unites us in care for our common home.

We confess how estranged we have become—

from one another, from your Creation, and from our truest selves.

We acknowledge that our greed and destructive impulses 

have fractured our relationships with you, with others, and with the Earth.

Fertile fields have become barren, 

forests lie desolate, 

oceans and rivers are polluted.

Thriving communities have become places of suffering, 

and the earth cries out.

Amen.