Pause for Prayer: SATURDAY 9/3

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You know all my pet peeves, Lord,
and probably some I haven't yet discovered!

You know the little things that others do that

    tick me off, 

    light my fuse,

    grind my gears

    and push my buttons...

You know the things that 

    irritate and aggravate,

    exasperate, infuriate,

    debilitate and agitate

               - me -

                as if 

                - I -

were the center of the universe,

to be handled with kid gloves,

'specially when it comes to things,

the little things that grate on me 

and on my way of doing things

and on my of saying things 

and on my way of thinking

about how all things should go...

My pet peeves, Lord:

    my bugbears, my personal vexations, 

    my petty hang-ups,

    my presumptions and obsessions 

reveal me as 

    demanding and self-centered,  

    selfish and conceited,

    overbearing, smug and pompous...

So, help me see my pet peeves, Lord,

for what they often are: 

arrogant assumptions about how the world would be

if only I had made it,

if only God were me...

 

Relieve me of the notion, Lord, 

that my way's always best,

that my first thought is brilliant,

that my way is the only way,

that I am always right...

 

Make me humble, Lord, and modest,

accepting of my neighbors' thoughts, 

respectful of their different ways

of doing things and saying things, the little things 

from which I've much to learn...

Let no small matters come between

my neighbor and myself

for when they do, then clearly, Lord,

they come twixt you and me...

Amen.

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