Search us, Lord. Know our hearts.

A prayer we’re often scared to start.

How do we share all that lives inside?

Who will wait, and how long can we abide?

It’s a fire burning. A tumultuous turning.

Of nature and sin and there’s nothing to win!

Our souls you already have, yet here we stumble?

Provide the way out, and yet then, we grumble?

Mercy.

Wash over us daily.

Purify our eyes, our words, our tongues!

Breathe back the life into our lungs!

Remind us we’re clean.

Remind us we’re seen.

Search us, Lord. Know our hearts.

Lead us through our mess to Christ!

Do we even deserve a fresh start?

Grace.