Now is the time to praise God for who God is – it is not a time of thanksgiving, but a time to marvel at the grace, mercy and generosity of our God. It is also a time to acknowledge and confess the incompleteness of our relationship in the presence of the Holy. We sense the brokenness and incompleteness of the world and our relationship to God and creation as both community and individual. This confession can be a personal confession, it can be a confession on behalf of the church, or as nations, or simply in terms of the nature of human kind.