O Lord forgive

"O Father in heaven, Who didst fashion my limbs to serve Thee and my soul to follow hard fter Thee, with sorrow and contrition of heart I acknowledge before Thee the faults and failures of the days that is now past. Too long, O Father, have I tried Thy patience; too often have I betrayed the sacred trust Thou hast given me to keep; yet Thou art still willing that I should come to Thee in lowliness of heart, as now I do, beseeching Thee to drown my transgressions in the sea of Thine own infinite love.

My failure to be true even to my own accepted standards;
My self-deception in face of temptation;
My choosing of the worst when I know the better;
O Lord forgive.

My failure to apply to myself the standards of conduct I demand of others;
My blindness to the suffering of others and my slowness to be taught by my own;
My complacence towards 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 evil in my self;
My hardness of heart towards my neighbours' faults and my readiness to make allowance for my own;
My unwillingness to believe that Thou hast called me to a small work and my brother to a great one;
O Lord forgive."
~from A Diary of Private Prayer by John Baillie