O Gracious and Holy Lord, Thou art the Creator of all things and in Thee do all things consist. Thy holiness has set Thee apart and Thou alone art worthy to be worshipped and adored. Blessed be Thy Name, O King, for with Thy right arm Thou dost reign supreme. As the sovereign and transcendent God, Thou knowest all things. Thou dost know the failures of Thy servant - my wretched heart's wanderings, my straying mind's departures from all that is holy. Though Thou dost know these things already, I do readily confess and repent thereof these slights against Thy holy law and plead that Thou, my longsuffering God, would forgive Thy broken servant. The guilt of my sin does haunt and plague me so, but not nearly enough! May Thy Holy Spirit visit with me with a constant sense of my sin -- not that I should be brought to despair, but so that my great need for Thy sanctification would linger ever before me. For it is Thy kindness which leads me to repentance and repent I do -- begging Thy mercies which are new every morning. I pray thus according to Thy promise to save Thy servant to the uttermost. To Thee alone I singularly and wholeheartedly give my utmost devotion. Forgive Thy servant then, Lord, and make me more like Thy Son -- for it is in His Name and by His merit I lay these requests before Thee. May it be so, Lord. Amen.

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Josh Hicks, Chloë's Dad
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It is God that multiplies our sorrows.... God, as a righteous Judge, does it, which ought to silence us under all our sorrows; as many as they are, we have deserved them all, and more: nay, God, as a tender Father, does it for our necessary correction, that we may be humbled for sin, and weaned from the world by all our sorrows; and the good we get by them, with the comfort we have under them, will abundantly balance our sorrows, how greatly soever they are multiplied. - Matthew Henry