You are right.. I'm often not happy because I set high standards for myself and feel guilty at almost the slightest thing.. It makes me loose confidence to pray
It is easier to please God than it is to please man......even ourselves. Man places standards and heights that you have to reach to be holy and desire to stone you when you fall short. God, when he sees you fall, picks you up and says go and sin no more:
"10 When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee?
11 She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more."
Sometimes we do wrong and tell God we are not worthy to be heard, so we wont bother to pray. God obliges, and waits patiently for us to change our minds. Then we start to reason with ourselves....
"How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!"
We make our plans to go crawling back to the Father who should be just as upset with us as man is and as we are with ourselves:
"18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,
19 And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants."
Just to find that the Good father had only been waiting for us to come back to him to again raise us to the status we had before falling....
"the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:
23 And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:
24 For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry."
We serve a Good, Good Father.