Night Prayer

Dear God, thank you for all that is good, for our creation and our humanity, for the stewardship you have given us of this planet earth, for the gifts of life and of one another, for your love which is unbounded and eternal. O thou, most holy and beloved, my companion and my Guide upon the way, my bright evening star.

We repent the wrongs we have done.

We have wounded your love.

O God heal us.

We stumble in the darkness.

Light of the world transfigure us.

We forget that you are our home.

Spirit of God, dwell in us.

Eternal Spirit, living God, in whom we live and move and have our being, all that we are, have been, and shall be is known to you, to the very secret of our hearts and all that rises to trouble us. Living flame, burn into us; cleansing wind, blow through us; fountain of water, well up within us, that we may love and praise in deed and in truth.

(A New Zealand Prayer Book, 168)