Lord our God, you see and hear us. You know us, each and every one of us, better than we know ourselves. You love us, even though we truly have not deserved it. You have helped us, are helping us, and will continue to help us when again and again we are about to ruin everything by wanting to be our own help. You are the judge, but also the Savior of all poor, confused humanity. We thank you for that. We praise you for that. And we look forward on that great day to being allowed to see what we are already allowed to believe, if you make us free to do so.
Make us free to do so! Give us an honest, sincere, and active faith in you and in your truth! Give it to many people, to all people! Give it to all nations and all governments, to the rich and the poor, to the healthy and the sick, to the prisoners and all those who think they are free, to the old and the young, to the happy and the sad, to the melancholy and the carefree! There is no one who does not need to believe, and there is no one to whom it has not been promised that’s "even I might believe." Say it to them and to us, that you are their gracious God and Father, and ours as well!
This we pray to you in the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ. Amen.
— Karl Barth, Fifty Prayers, 52.