Lord God,
To Adam, you declared, that it was not good that he be alone.
Neither Adam nor we, his descendants, live well isolated.
We need one another.
Yet, O Lord, how to live with one another?
It is our need for one another that makes it so difficult.
We seek one another’s approval.
We sulk over one another’s inattention.
We stew over one another’s criticism.
We withhold forgiveness for one another’s failures.
It is not good for us to be alone, but, at times, it seems we will have it no other way.
Forgive us.
Through your abundant mercy,
fill us to overflowing with the love that unites with Christ,
so that we might submit ourselves to one another out of reverence for him.
Grant that we might love others as he loved us.
In Jesus’ name. Amen
As used by South Bend Christian Reformed Church in South Bend, IN
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