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;
   O 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 own 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!"