Isaiah 56.3 “We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.”
ONE of the great prayers in the Episcopal Church which we sometimes use in our Morning Services is the Confession. It allows us to prepare ourselves and to make a clean breast of all the things that separate us from God.
One phrase in the prayer always strikes me. “We have erred and strayed from Thy ways like lost sheep....”