Lord Help Us Forgive

Oh Lord, in this one life that we live Help us to love and to forgive When words so cruel and unkindly spoken Are tossed at our hearts making them broken Anger and rage rise out of the ashes Words that won’t erase our tongue quickly unlashes Oh Lord, help us to seek not with vengeance to wound By bitterness our own soul only gets doomed Oh Lord, in this one life that we live Help us to love and to forgive When things so unfair are slated our share When un-thoughtful hurts are doled with no care Stubborn ugly Pride raises its head To duty and goodness makes our soul dead Oh Lord, help us to know wounds are not meant to be grown These weeds of the heart are meant to be thrown Oh Lord, in this one life that we live Help us to love and to forgive When things we’ve done in an unwise moment have broken Our fair reputation that was our only good token Remorse and regrets rise to en-shackle Feelings a human heart by itself can’t tackle Oh Lord, help us to not be engulfed by our own sorrow By forgiving ourselves walk into a better tomorrow Oh Lord, You have shown us to forgive friend and foe You have forgiven us, so we don’t have to drown in our woe So Lord, in this one life that we live Help us to love like You and to like You forgive.