A Prayer for Grace to Forgive Again

Father, I already forgave this. I did the work, I let it go, and now the same person has done it again, and I feel something in me close up and say enough. I am out of patience and almost out of grace.

I confess I want there to be a limit, a point where I have given enough and am finally allowed to walk away hardened. Forgiving the repeat offense feels like being a fool.

But I remember how many times I have come back to You with the same sin, and how You never met me with a sigh or a tally. I am asking for that kind of grace to flow through me now.

You said if someone wrongs me and turns back again and again, I am to forgive. That seems impossible on my own strength, so I am not relying on my own strength. I am relying on Yours.

Refill what is empty in me. Give me grace I do not naturally have.

I forgive again, not because they have changed, but because You keep changing me. Pour Your patience through me one more time. Amen.