Such dark solace
The Prayer of Repentance scrubs us clean,
our sins, but also our guilt.
Repentance and forgiveness –
that we
might be reminded gently
of our ignorance and frailties
and the enigmatic directions
our lives bend and break toward
in God’s great scheme.
To cling to our guilt is a self-indulgence,
the ego’s attempt to chastise itself into purity
and thus face not karma’s dogged law.
Such dark solace, they say,
is almost impossible to forego,
better to rinse it away in prayer
and stand before God joyously naked,
utterly trusting, free of any separative stain.
O child of God, Meher said there is nothing to
forgive,
yet He grants forgiveness and authors the Prayer.
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