First Sunday of Lent, Additional Collect (Redub)

God of heaven and earth,

when Jesus went to a wild and

vast place, you were there.

Find us, we pray, in the

busy, lonely and empty spaces of our lives.

Help us find you in the crowd,

when alone, and in the creation.

Amen.

The Gunning Fog readability index suggests 6.78 years of formal education is required to understand this prayer on a first reading, the Common Worship prayer requires 16.4 years.

Here's the information on how this prayer is a redub.

The First Sunday of Lent Collection of 5 prayers is here.

You can also look at the full Index of Prayers.

The project began Advent 2012, the first phase concludes in 2016.

If you want to use the prayers, an acknowledgement of myself as author and, if there's space, the link to my blog would be much appreciated.