Papa Abba Father Please

Please take the pain of my youth and turn it into peace everlasting. Please replace my fears with serene solitude and the security of your arms. Please cast your revealing light upon the dark corners of my deceit. Please help me to stand steadfast in the shadow of your wings that the searing fire of guilt can no longer scorch my soul. Please drive the echoes of my sorrow into the waters of your redemption, within the soft shores of your joy. Please fill me with the song of your unconditional Love lest I once again beat the arrogant drum of judgment. Please enable my eyes to survey the depth and breadth of your generosity in order to keep the shallow... narrow mirth of my ingratitude at bay. Please bleach the tainted fabric of my mind in the white light of your purity. Please soften my haughty eyes with compassion that I may practice the only approved religion; "to care for widows and orphans". Please hone the jagged edge of my well of forgiveness, grinding away the sharp burrs of my rage. Please cast the soiled stones of my hatred into your eternal spring of living water. Please inform the skewed angles of my understanding with the unfathomable depth of your knowledge Please fortify the frailty of my reason with the many pillars of your wisdom. Please recast the clumsy forms of my relationships with the graceful lines of Agape, that you might heal us through the loving of one another and love us through the healing of each. Please smooth the splintered surface and harsh corners of my fatherhood so that my amazing children can safely draw near enough to hear your heartbeat within me. Please...