The Prayer~ O Lord Forgive.

[Lorenzo]

My failure to be true even to my own accepted standards:
O Lord, forgive!

"My self-deception in the face of temptation: O Lord, forgive!
My choosing of the worse when I knew the better:
O Lord forgive!

My failure to apply to myself the standards of conduct that I demand of others;
Lord forgive!

My blindness to the suffering of others and my slowness to be taught by my own:
O Lord, forgive!

My complacence toward wrongs that do not touch my won case and my over sensitiveness to those that do:
O Lord, forgive!

My slowness to see the good in my fellows and to see the evil in myself:
O Lord forgive!

My hardness of heart toward my neighbor's faults and my readiness to make allowance for my own:
O Lord for give!

My unwillingness to believe that You have called me to a small work and my brother to a great one:
O Lord, forgive!

Amen.