Prayer of Confession: Loving God, You Have Brought Us through the Summer's Heat

Loving God, you have brought us through the summer’s heat and drought, the summer’s rain and cool evenings. Throughout the country, we have been battling forest fires and experiencing evacuations. We have struggled with excesses of weather and the looming threat of real climate change. It has disturbed and disquieted us.

As this season draws to a close, we find ourselves seeking wisdom and compassion from your word and song as we anticipate an autumn like no other. We anticipate this season knowing that things will be different, yet also knowing that the trees will slowly turn their autumnal colours and the birds will start their procession southward.

As the seasons change, may we remain true to your word and to the purpose that Jesus has called us to live. Amen.

Jim McKean, Severn Shores U.C., Severn, Ont.