Examination of Conscience
Cloisters on the Platte - Part of the Friday Morning Prayer: Lord, you have called us to depend upon you in humility, trusting your ways, your guidance, your strength, and help. For the times and ways in which I have forgotten about you and depended instead upon my strength, my wisdom, and my ways, I am truly sorry. I place in your hands for forgiveness my impatience, intolerance, and harsh judgments. Knowing full well my shortcomings and how often I have been wrong or fallen short, still I can hold myself and others to impossible standards; too often I can treat family members, friends, neighbors, and co-workers as an annoyance or an interruption, rather than recognizing them as companions in life. For all that is harsh within me… for the ways in which I have refused to bear with others lovingly, I beg your forgiveness, Lord. As your follower, Lord Jesus, I am sent to bring unity and to build up your church and your world. Even in the face of disappointments born of brokenness and sin...