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A
PRAYER FOR FORGIVING ONESELF
Gracious
God, my heart is heavy with my own failures. I try to excuse them and
explain to myself why they occurred, because I want to be free
from the feeling that I am unworthy and incapable of being all that I
can be. But I find it easier to accept your forgiveness than to forgive
myself. When I try to forgive myself, it seems I only remember and re-play
my failures in my mind, and a sense of hopelessness floods over me. Help
me to know that my past actions are a part of my growing humanity and
that even when I fail to live up to what is your will for me, every single
moment can be lived anew. Remind me that refusing to forgive myself only
keeps me from experiencing that newness. Assure me of the truth that
by casting “my sins into the depth of the sea” (Micah 7:19b),
you have freed me to discard them myself and live the next moment as
if it were my first—for indeed it is. I ask this for the sake
of your love. Amen.
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