EVENING PRAYER

Lord help us to follow you
To obey your rules, your laws
To keep you first in all we do
To champion each just cause
Help us to stay on the right path
To know where you stand on everything
Help us Lord
Help us to end our own suffering

How can we lead where we don't go?
How can we teach what we don't know?
How do we so easily forget we are Yours?
How can the world see You in us
How can they love or ever trust
If those who say they are your own
Seem so far removed from all You are?

Lord, let us start again
Wipe each slate clean
Restore, revive, renew, give life again
Help us seek You night and day
Please don't take Yourself away
And if we suffer, let it be for You alone
Not because of our own faults
Not for foolish, evil things
Help us not be the cause of our own suffering.