Merciful Master, I beseech you today that you make me capable of seeing my shame and repenting of it. I sense fear as I approach my inner self and my sins I've never been able to face. I consider people I've hurt and I sense my defensiveness. Why do I have to protect myself, justifying my words or actions? Why do I have to insist that I have done no wrong? What is the big deal? You ask me to be understanding, to dwell according to knowledge (1Pt3:7). Help me to put my self to the side. Help me to seek to understand and to not care about being understood. Deliver me from my need to feel understood. And if what a person says to me angers me deliver me from sinning in my anger. And help me to search myself so that I can learn from the temptation, what the source is. In short, help me to be more like you, in the goodness of your heart. Help me to love rather than hurt. Make me tender. I want to be a friend. And I ask for healing in a relationship where it is not my doing to create the healing but yours. I ask for your help. I ask for your mercy. I ask your forgiveness. I ask that you make me to be a better man. You are worthy of all praise. And I will rejoice in the answers to this plea. Thank you good Father!