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December 05, 2004

Washing Us Clean

Dear God,
I want so much to be the person You would have me be.
There are so many places in my life where I still hide from You, where I deny my love.
In this moment I surrender those places to You.
Please heal me, Lord.
I know that I:
• make it hard for other people to get close to me
• withhold my forgiveness
• hold prejudices against certain people
• am mean to some people
• gossip
• lie
• cheat
• play small
• steal or violate
• manipulate
• hold resentments
• take people and situations for granted
• (say your own)
Turn my darkness, dear Lord, into Light.
May I become Your Self within me.
Illumine my heart.
Increase my understanding.
May my footsteps go where You would have them go, and my actions be what You would have them be.
Dear Lord, please make me new.
Amen.
- from Illuminata

Posted by mwblog at December 5, 2004 01:03 AM