God (Part One)
O God,
Forgive us for the ways in which we do wrongly by you.
Forgive us for the ways in which we think wrongly of you.
Forgive us for thinking that we know enough about you.
Forgive us for thinking that we have you and your ways figured out.
Forgive us for the ways in which we speak wrongly of you.
Forgive us for talking about you in ways that fail to honor you.
Forgive us for speaking as if our mere words could ever describe you.
Forgive us for the ways in which we speak wrongly for you.
Forgive us for presuming to tell others what your will is for them.
Forgive us for making pronouncements as if we can know how you regard the whole world.
Forgive us for the ways in which we speak wrongly to you.
Forgive us for our arrogance that leads us to think that you need us to tell you what needs to be done.
Forgive us for our presumption in speaking to you with no sense of our sin and of your holiness.
Forgive us for the ways in which we bear witness wrongly to you.
Forgive us for living in ways that fail to reflect your love, grace, and mercy.
Forgive us for treating people in ways that fail to show them how you want them to be treated.
O God,
Forgive us for the ways we do wrongly by you …
Amen.
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