A Concord Pastor Comments: Monday Morning Offering: 8/26

Good morning, good God!

Lord,
I try really hard to do the right thing

and say the right word

but despite my best efforts,
my words and deeds can often miss their mark
and, worse, end up hurting
just where I tried and hoped to heal...

Sometimes my efforts at honesty
become a hard lesson in humility
and while I'm grateful for what I've learned
I grieve the cost to those at whose expense

my newfound wisdom comes...

Sometimes, Lord, my best intentions

fall apart in my own hands
and, try as I might, it's hard to see

how and when and why something went wrong

- but it did and I need to own it…

So this morning, Lord,

I offer you my failed deeds and garbled words

and any harm they've done to those entrusted to my care.
I pray you’ll speak your healing word
upon whatever unintended hurt I've caused...

And I offer you all I've learned the hard way, Lord:

the way that's paved with others' hopes,
the path that bears the prints of my rough steps.

I ask forgiveness of any whose hearts

I've trespassed without care...

I offer you all my good intentions, Lord,

help me see them as they are:

to discern the selfish from the selfless

   and to act upon what wisdom I might gain...

I offer you all the mistakes I've made, Lord:
   the ones I didn't see coming,
   the ones I should have seen coming,
   and the ones I saw only once it was too late:

I pray that you’ll forgive me

and heal the hearts of any I have hurt…

I offer you my foolish pride

that tempts me to think, and too often to believe,
that I’m always right and never wrong…

Help me know myself as you know me,
help me see what’s good and true;
help me take an honest look, Lord

at anything not worthy of a place within my heart...

Tame, heal, shape, mold and bless my heart

for loving you, Lord,

and for serving all

whose paths this day will cross my own...

Amen.

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