I’ve still been reading the devotional Emotionally Healthy Relationships Day by Day by Peter Scazzero. I’ve found good words in here including a shortened/adapted version of something called the “Compassion Meditation Prayer”. I can find myself again hitting blocks of unforgiveness inside me, but I didn’t even have a willing spirit in those places. I’ll think to myself, “It’s because this part of me was deadened.” But it can come back.

May you be happy, may you be free
May you be loving, may you be loved
May you know the fulfillment of what God has planned for you
May you experience God’s deep profound love for you
May Jesus Christ be formed in you
May you know his peace that passes all understanding
May all good things be yours
May Jesus’ joy be in you and may that joy be complete
May you know the Lord in all his goodness and compassion
May you be protected from the evil one amidst every temptation that comes your way
May the Holy Spirit fill and permeate your entire being
May you see his glory
May you be forgiven of every sin
I forgive you of every wound and hurt with all my heart
May God’s goodness and mercy follow you all the days of your life

(Original prayer by William A. Meninger)