After the Fireworks – An Evening Prayer with Rev. Paul Lachlan Peck

Dealing with Guilt and Shame

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All past mistakes are but as dreams,

That error once was real;

To view all guilt and shame as false

Is Love’s divine appeal.

All thoughts, words, deeds of long ago

Were needed in their form;

These taught the lessons needed then,

Though now outgrown, outworn.

So guilt must now remove itself

From God’s most perfect man;

In hereness, nowness I resolve

To follow Mind’s pure Plan.

Shame, too, cannot attach itself,

To weigh my pure thought down;

For I must be about the work

Of claiming victory’s crown.

Thus guilt and shame are seen as lies

To hold me back with fear;

For Heaven is claimed as harmony,

So hell must disappear.

Rev. Paul Lachlan Peck

P.O. Box 2583

Capistrano Beach, CA 92624