The Psalm
Psalm 103:4 (CSB) He redeems your life from the Pit; he crowns you with faithful love and compassion.
The Prayer
Lord
For all of my
troubling sin
wicked perversion
grotesque behavior
slothfulness
anger
I should have perish
I should be under the wrath of your Son
I should have been counted with the worthless
I should have
because everything about me
was at war with you
But you have been my God
before I was even a thought in my mother's womb
you have molded time and space
and your Son entered into creation
to save a wretched outcast like me
You have delivered me from sin
and you have removed my transgressions
but you have not gone back in time
and removed the hurt I have caused
and the hurt and pain that I have endured
You alone
have made it worthwhile
the evil I have felt and dealt
you have turned it into good
because your Son died on the cross
to reconcile creation to himself
for good.
I praise you
because you alone
have loved me.
Amen