Prayer of Confession

On Sunday, I was struck by how true our opening prayer was:

Lord, some of us walk home on these streets,
and some of us call these streets home.
We are a community of struggle.
Some of us are rich people trying to escape loneliness.
Some of us are poor people trying to escape the cold.
Some of us are addicted to drugs, and others are addicted to money.
We are a broken people who need each other and God,
for we have come to recognize the mess that we have created of our world
and how deeply we suffer from that mess.

We come before you asking you to help us work together
to give birth to a new community within the shell of the old.
We believe that another world is possible.
We believe that another world is necessary.
We believe that another world is already here. Amen.