Psalm 51:1-3 NLT
Have mercy on me, O God,
    because of your unfailing love.
Because of your great compassion,
    blot out the stain of my sins.
Wash me clean from my guilt.
    Purify me from my sin.

God of infinite mercy and grace,
I have not seen myself the way you see me:
   beautiful worthy and good.
Forgive me, and turn me back towards the light.

I have not seen others the way you see them:
   loved accepted and part of my family.
Forgive me, and turn me back towards the light.

I have not seen your creation the way you see it:
   sacred and precious and in need of my care.
Forgive me, and turn me back towards the light.

For when I have not lived in faith;
   for when I have not lived in hope; for when I have not lived in love.
Forgive me, and turn me back towards the light.

Thank you that you are the God of restoration.
Restore me now in your wonderful light, in the name of Christ.  Amen.

1 John 1:5-7
This is the message we heard from Jesus and now declare to you:
   God is light, and there is no darkness in him at all. 
So, we are lying if we say we have fellowship with God
   but go on living in spiritual darkness; we are not practicing the truth. 
But if we are living in the light, as God is in the light,
   then we have fellowship with each other,
   and the blood of Jesus, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.