Influence Our Spirits

Almighty and Eternal One, our hearts convict us before your divine presence because we have so often followed the whims and wishes of our own hearts instead of listening to your voice.  Your Ways are holy; purge our prayers of selfish thoughts.  Lord of all, pardon us for breaking life into fragments, forgetting the whole to which we all belong.  Your works are righteous, deliver us from injustice to our neighbors.  Your Love pleads from the cross; cleanse us of hatred and self-rigteousness which quench the fires of compassion.  In Jesus' Name we pray.  Amen.