Prayers for Forgiveness

PRAYER FOR WHEN YOU NEED FORGIVENESS - I

O Lord our God, we confess that in dealings with others we often are like a clam, 98% mouth covered with a hard shell.
A friend has a problem and rather than listen, we sound off.
A job doesn't go quite right and rather than learn, we spout off.
Lord, you made us with two ears for every mouth.
Help us to take this hint from Your creation.
Make us slow to speak and ready to listen, that we may better understand and pull together to get the job done and this great ship safely home.
Amen.

PRAYER FOR WHEN YOU NEED FORGIVENESS - II

Forgive me, God, for anything I didn’t do today which I might have done.
Forgive me for any help I might have given today which I did not give.
Forgive me for being so wrapped up in my own troubles and my own problems that I had no time for those of anyone else.
Forgive me for being so immersed in my own work that I had no time to give anyone else a helping hand.
Forgive me for being selfish with my own leisure time and for refusing to give some of it up to help someone else.
Help me to learn the lesson that selfishness and happiness can never go together.
Help me to find happiness in forgetting myself and in trying to bring help and happiness to others.
Amen.

PRAYER FOR WHEN YOU NEED HEALING INSIDE

O God, These prayers come from all of us.
Someone prays on our behalf, but the prayers belong to everyone, and come from our hearts more than from our mouths.
In some ways none of us really knows how another feels, because each of us must struggle with his own fears, cope with his own problems,hurt from his own pains, search for his own goals, forgive and be forgiven his own failures.
In such matters, God, when we seek understanding and hope for encouragement, it is to you that we turn.
In moments such as these, we reach beyond ourselves and our troubles to you...asking not so much for things, but for a second or two of your presence.
Just your slightest touch, and the day will be blessed, the raw spots will be healed and there will be peace in the hours ahead.
And so we pray to you Dear God, Almighty, Everlasting One--all of us--giving thanks for this moment, your touch and our healing.
Amen.