With profound gratitude to Father Richard Rohr*:

I thank you, Lord Jesus, for becoming a human being

        so I do not have to pretend or try to be God.

I thank you, Lord Jesus, for becoming finite and limited

        so I do not have to pretend that I am infinite and limitless.

I thank you, crucified God, for becoming mortal

        so I do not have to try to make myself immortal.

I thank you, Lord Jesus, for becoming inferior

        so I do not have to pretend that I am superior to anyone.

I thank you for being crucified outside the walls,

        for being expelled and excluded

               like the sinners and the outcast,

        so you can meet me where I feel that I am,

        always outside the walls of worthiness.

* – http://cacradicalgrace.org/