PRAYER OF CONFESSION (unison) (taken from worship in the Navaho tradition)
O God, you are like a weaver-woman in our lives. Out of the energy of the universe you have spun each one of us into a unique, colorful strand with our own special hue and texture, and have woven us together into your human family that blankets the globe. We admit that our own choices have severed us from your loom of life and created rents in the whole of our human fabric.
We have allowed ourselves to be bound by the narrow contexts into which we were born and now live our daily lives. To insulate ourselves from fatigue and isolation and to insure our own survival, we have often refused to ask the hard questions that need to be asked for the sake of the well-being of all people. O God, open our eyes to the mystery and power of your Spirit. Refresh us with the light of your vision so that we may once again recognize the beauty and wonder of the specially spun thread that we are and the splendor of the one colorful cloth of humanity. Re-attach us to your loom so that your vision may be made plain through us. In the name of the Christ, the One who was at one with all of life. Amen.
