I repent.
I have been wrong in supposing that I could manage my own life
and be my own god;
I have been wrong in thinking I had, or could get,
the strength, education and training to make it on my own;
I trust that God in Jesus Christ is telling me the truth.
I lean into the realization
that what you want from me
and what I want from you
are not going to be achieved by doing the same old things,
thinking the same old thoughts.
I decide
again
and still
to follow you,
my Lord Jesus Christ,
and be your pilgrim in the path of peace.
(a prayer based on lines from Eugene Peterson, A Long Obedience in the Same Direction (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1980), 29-30).
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