O Father in heaven, who didst fashion my limbs to serve Thee and my soul to follow hard after Thee, with sorrow and contrition of heart I acknowledge before Thee the faults and failures of the day that is now past. Too long, O Father, have I tried thy patience; too often have I betrayed the sacred trust Thou hast given me to keep; yet Thou art still willing that I should come to Thee in lowliness of heart, as now I do, beseeching Thee to drown my transgressions in the sea of Thine own infinite love.
My failure to be true even to my own accepted standards:
My self-deception in face of temptatio:
My choosing of the worse when I know the better:
O Lord, forgive.
My failure to apply to myself the standards of conduct I demand of others:
My blindness to the suffering of others and my slowness to be taught by my own.
My complacence towards wrongs that do not touch my own case and my over-sensitiveness to those that do :
My slowness to see the good in my fellows and to see the evil in myself;
My hardness of heart towards my neighbor's faults and my readiness to make allowance for my own.
My unwillingness to believe that Thou hast called me to a small work and my brother to a great one:
O Lord forgive.
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence, and take not thy holy spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation, and give me the strength of a willing spirit. Amen.
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