23/08/2018
My Prayer.
Generous in love—God, give grace!Huge in mercy—wipe out my bad record. Scrub away my guilt,soak out my sins in your laundry. I know how bad I've been;my sins are staring me down. You're the One I've violated, and you've seenit all, seen the full extent of my evil.You have all the facts before you;whatever you decide about me is fair. I've been out of step with you for a long time,in the wrong since before I was born. What you're after is truth from the inside out.Enter me, then; conceive a new, true life. Soak me in your laundry and I'll come out clean,scrub me and I'll have a snow-white life. Tune me in to foot-tapping songs,set these once-broken bones to dancing. Don't look too close for blemishes,give me a clean bill of health. God, make a fresh start in me,shape a Genesis week from the chaos of my life. Don't throw me out with the trash,or fail to breathe holiness in me. Bring me back from gray exile,put a fresh wind in my sails! Give me a job teaching rebels your waysso the lost can find their way home. Commute my death sentence, God, my salvation God,and I'll sing anthems to your life-giving ways. Unbutton my lips, dear God;I'll let loose with your praise.