Forgiveness

Forgiven for Good

Forgiven for Good There's a reason the sun rises anew each day.Every day is a completely clean slate.Cherry-picking bad memories and rolling them around in my head all...

Perfect Victim

Perfect Victim He saw from the first that I was perfect.I did not scream.I hid his ugly secret under layers of paindeep in my soul. I told no one.No one, that is, but You.Please help me learn how to trust again.Help me to stop seeing his faceon those that hold no blame.Tell me, over and over,that...

Touchstone

Touchstone Please remind me that my heart has only four chambers.Scant room for such squattersas grudges, slights, pettiness.If I carry around baggage from the past,there isn't room for blessings unbounded. Help me to disarm unilaterally,so it isn't possible to...

Apology

Apology When night stretches endless,I call out for You.When day turns gray and lonelyI long for You.When I am sick,my breath growing ragged and painful,I cling to You.But when I am immersed in joy,I forget You.I am sorry.

Forgive, Forget, Move On

Forgive, Forget, Move On How can I ever forget?You tell me forgiving begets forgetting.Easier said than done.I nurse my hurts and keep them close,like treasured souvenirs.Pry open my fists and force them loose.It is time to move on,even though I'm afraid of the road ahead,what it looks likewithout the distraction of old...

Lost and Found

Lost and Found I’ve done it again.I’d lose my own head if it wasn’t attached.Please.It seems like such a little thing.But I could use:Your eyes, to see the unseen,Your attentiveness,so as not to repeat the fault,Your forgiveness, for being so carelesswith the many gifts you give me.Help me recover what...

Words Do Hurt

Words Do Hurt If only I could take them back!But the words flew out of my thoughtless mouthlike a bullet out of a gun.I watched it pierce,the pain welling up in my friend's eyes.I felt it ricochet through me, too,gutting me to the heart.There seems no end to the waysthat words can harm.I, alone, cannot fix this.

Strong Enough Love

Strong Enough Love Stand beside me as I look at my grief,for innocence lostand childhood stolen.Help me hold my grief.Help me honor my grief.Help me let my grief go.Take my hand as I look at my rage,for his maddening persistence,violating the boundaries he knew were there.Help me hold my rage.Help me honor my...

Overcoming Obstacles: Prayer for Rose Marie

Overcoming Obstacles: Prayer for Rose Marie Recently the team has been discussing a new way to reach out to our community, by making the prayer request feature of Prayables more prominent. We are in the process of making a prayer request forum to add to the PrayPals Community. This will make it...

Facing the Music

Facing the Music Letting go of the past is quite the sticky wicket.The real challenge is forgiving myself.I brook no more excuses.There was no reason for what I did.How could I? Was that even me?It's not just the specific eventsI can't stop enumerating,it's the way I feel about myselfwhen I remember.Like watching a dam...

Locked Up

Locked Up First, a call.He didn't show up for work.A nagging worry as the search began.No results: He's nowhere to be found.Incarcerated.My son, no longer free.Caught in his own reckless stupidity.Yet not only he suffers:I'm in pain, for him, for me,for all of us who love him.Help me to bear the weight of worry.Bring a...