When people come together before their God and each other as an
experience of community, we often find that the love and courage and
truth which is released goes beyond the sum total of our human hopes. In
rituals of healing and forgiveness there is also something of an
enacting of faith. We, who find it hard to believe in our forgiveness,
or healing, or some other hope, commit ourselves in faith to affirming
before others that we are forgiven or healed or given a new hope'. This
book offers inspiration for anyone involved in leading or preparing
worship. Liberating and vivid, often drawing on the power of symbol and
ritual, these prayers and liturgies show faith, forgiveness and healing
affirmed and enacted in worship together.