I confess that it is still too easy for me to sacrifice
my convictions for convenience,
your standards for status,
your principles for promotion,
your absolutes for my ambition,
my soul for shallow and unsatisfying success.
How easily I am seduced by power, prestige, pleasure, or possessions – seduced into violating my integrity or harming my fellowship with you.
From earth’s fullest bliss I turn to you again, unfulfilled. Please forgive me my half-hearted devotion and my double-minded spirit. In the name of him who refused to save himself, I pray. Amen.
