Katie's prayer: Planetshakers' "All I Want Is You"

I never realized how much this song screams Confession! I mean, there was always that one line (You take away my guilty stains), but that was it... or so I thought. Then I started praying the song, actually listening to the words, reading the words. Really, when you look at it, this song is all about confession. From singing about the shock about God’s grace that He gives out freely, even when we don’t deserve it, to singing about God taking away the guilty stains, but only by the power of the name of Jesus, to singing about desperately needing God and finding Him in that ‘secret place’ aka confessional.

Who knows, maybe that’s not what the song’s about at all. Maybe it just seems that way to me because it’s been about a month since I’ve been to confession. And maybe because that time, a month ago, I didn’t really feel like it counted cause the priest was super old and pretty sure he didn’t hear anything I said. And maybe it’s because I might have the possibility to go again tonight. And maybe it’s because I’m slowly coming to the realization that confession isn’t really all that bad, it’s actually pretty good. Whatever the reason, I think it might be time to go.