Prayer for dads

Father, I tend to minimize. The white lie was just polite. The flash of contempt at the slower driver was just venting. The shortcut on the expense report was just everyone does it. But Romans 7 says sin is worse than I want to admit. Show me the family resemblance between my polite sins and the ones I would clearly call ugly. Not so I drown in shame. So I confess them as the same thing they are, instead of dressing them in nicer clothes. Honest accounting is the start of repair. Amen.