General Prayer – Re-Imagining Worship

Mother Forgive Them

(Adapted from an East London-Eastern Cape ecumenical service on gender based violence) This prayer of anger, confession and intercession

Oh, Almighty God, do you even hear? When the waves are crashing are you ever near? What’s your problem?!

I believe in God, Who, though Almighty, chooses grace. Mirroring God, I reflect grace to all. I believe in Jesus

God of life, God of liberation, As women we are subjected to the Empire of oppression, a system characterized by

Para a hora do desespero confession of “I believe in a Soft God. I believe in a Soft God who

God of the homeless with no place to sleep or even store their worldly goods, God of the beggar to

Where are you God? Over and over it is the same. I am tired of the prayers, comforting words, Which

Squatting in my little street corner this very dark night. It is cold and the and the darkness is scary.

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God you are our refuge. You are the shore in sight, You are hands that reach out, You are the

This prayer was done amidst the women on the streets who were taking care of their hair and painting toenails