Meditation Moment

A prayer for people who are afraid they cannot or will not be forgiven…

God, our hand is in my life and in all my ways.

Keep me from fluttering about in my faith; give me the faith to settle in and live as a faithful person.

I ask because I am ambivalent; my decisions are inconsistent; I do not live according to your will - instead, I fixate on my own.

Cut me off before my compulsions become my thoughts and my thoughts become my actions.

You are good, patient and kind; grant me that I might be and do the same.

Save me from myself, from the deceit of ego, the treachery of my nature, the denial of my offenses.

I know that many of my desires are a contradiction.

I live as though I am testing your patience.

O, Father, don’t cast me away and drive me from your presence. Open my heart that it may heal; make me whole and holy.