Daily Devotion - Monday, August 9

Prayer for Forgiveness

“Trust in God at all times, O people;
pour out your heart before him;
God is a refuge for us.”
--A call to faith, Psalm 62: 8

A few years ago, Maggie Oman was inspired to serve as the editor for a book entitled Prayers for Healing. The book offers 365 blessings, poems and meditations from people of various faith traditions. It is grouped by seasons of the year. This week we receive prayers from the Summer Section of the book. Today a prayer from Persia:

“All that we ought to have thought and have not thought,
All that we ought to have said, and have not said,
All that we ought to have done, and have not done;

“All that we ought not to have thought, and yet have thought,
All that we ought not to have spoken, and yet have spoken,
All that we ought not to have done, and yet have done;

“For thoughts, words and works, pray we, O God, for forgiveness.”

May your week be blessed with the thoughts, the words and the deeds that come from souls forgiven and empowered to do that which needs to be done.

A prayer: God, be in all that I do. Amen.

--Ben Keckler
08.09.10