...Israel and her mission to the nations. "Almighty and most merciful Father, we have erred and stmyed from thy ways, like lost sheep. We have followed too...we ought not to have done, and there is no health in us. " A Ceneral Confession, Book of Common Pmyer What's striking, once more, is the persistence...

...certainly look happier than when you came in." "Much happier," I agreed. PART VI Devices and desires "We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost...too much the devices and desires of our own hearts." A GENERAL CONFESSION BOOK OP COMMON PRAYER, 1928 VERSION MAY 1987 BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA Wrongful Life...

...absolution: B78 Genero/ Almighty and most merciful Father, B34 we have wandered and strayed from your ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the...desires of our own hearts. We have offended against your holy laws. We have left undone those things that we ought to have done; and we have done those...

...sins when we come into church? Why do grown-up, strong men and women get down on their knees and say, "We have followed too much the devices and desires...own hearts; we have offended against thy holy laws"? Why do we say, "We have left undone those things which we ought to have done, and we have done those...

...the Presbyterian Church (USA) begins: "Almighty and merciful God, we have erred and strayed from your ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts." 5 We lose the way of God, in spite of having the road map of God's Word. Just having a map is never...

...legs, that he had refused to walk beside her anywhere his friends might see them? He had been ten. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts, the rector told the four people in the pews, who would agree that they had followed their desires,...

...ritual and the phrases which have worn a channel, like raindrops, upon the mind that is lulled by them. "Almighty and most merciful Father, we have erred...we ought not to have done. And there is no health in us." "O Lord our heavenly Father, high and mighty, King of kings, Lord of lords, the only Ruler...

...Common Prayer of 1928, the faithful repeated a general confession that included the following words: We have followed too much the devices and desires...we ought not to have done; and there is no health in us: but thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us miserable offenders . . . On Communion Sundays, the Episcopalians...

...stands right beside the quay. Its bell was tolling. I went in. I was in time for Evensong. A Imighty and most merciful Father: We have erred and strayed...hearts. We have offended against thy holy laws. We have lefl undone those things which we ought to have done; And we have done those things which we ought...

...echoes a line in the general confession of the The Book of Common Prayer, which opens, "Almighty and merciful Father; we have erred, and strayed from thy...too much the devices and desires of our own hearts" (23; emphasis added). Using the line to inform the meaning of "desert of the heart," one can argue...