Untying Knots

"Cross painting- Molly"
Chapter 47 (cont'd)
Simmy checked her email and found a 'note from a friend.' She opened it, like a child at Christmas, knowing there would be something interesting in it.
Sam leaned over her shoulder, asking, "What's new with our friends?"
She sent me 'The Knots Prayer.'
"Read it to me!" Sam leaned back, in meditative pose, closing his eyes to envision.
Simmy started, "Dear God:
Please untie the knots
that are in my mind, my heart and my life.
Remove the have nots,
the can nots and
the do nots that I have in my mind.
Erase all the will nots,
might nots,
that may find a home in my heart.
Release me from the could nots,
would nots
that obstruct my life.
And, most of all,
Dear God,
I ask that You remove from my mind, my heart and my life all the 'am nots' that I have allowed to hold me back, especially the thought that I am not good enough.
Author known to God"
Simmy felt the truth of the words sink into her soul,
realizing,
knowing,
"everybody feels inadequate sometimes." She spoke the last sentence out loud.
Sam nodded, "That's why people gossip, lie, subvert the truth, malign anothers' character... the list goes on and on... all because people can't admit their own mistakes or admit that someone may be better at something than they are."
"The weakness of mankind... admitting ones' own weakness. Always ironic!" Simmy spoke the simple truth.
"What did you once say was the core sin of..." Sam stopped to try to remember the conversation.
Simmy finished his thoughts. "Oh, the 'Everybody's Inadequate' sin. When you need to keep telling people that, you just create a noose knot that strangles whatever creativity there may be in people.
"So, it's a 'not knot.'" Sam quipped.