A Prayer for Communion

I’ve started to read Job again, and since many consider it to be the earliest recorded book of the Old Testament I have been thinking about the great narrative of God. This prayer for communion is a testimony to the long arc of God’s story:

May the God who was slow to anger with our forefathers: Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,
and slow to anger with the children of Israel, be slow to anger with us, the church:
that in our collective weakness, and our collective sin, God would look to the death
and resurrection of his son Jesus Christ unto the forgiveness of our transgressions,
and fill us with new life by the power of the Holy Spirit. Amen.