A prayer for the second Sunday in Lent

God.

You and we make promises.

Maybe that’s part of what it means to be a person, to make promises to other people. Commitments. Covenants. Agreements.

We agree to belong to each other. We agree to belong to teams, to communities, to congregations. We say that we will keep faith. And then we don’t.

We confess that we willfully choose to do things that we know are not for the good of those we are committed to.We confess that we unwittingly make choices that damage our relation...