Intimate God, you are able to accept in us what we cannot even acknowledge;
you have named in us what we cannot bear to speak of;
you hold in your memory what we have tried to forget;
you will hold out to us a glory we cannot imagine.
Reconcile us through your cross to all that we have rejected in ourselves,
that we may find no part of your creation to be alien or strange to us,
and that we ourselves may be made whole,
through Jesus Christ, our lover and friend."
Common Worship Pastoral Services