NIGHT PRAYER: Saturday 8/3

Got some things I want you to take care of, Lord,
and I'd like you to take care of them
    right away,
    pronto,
    directly,
    sooner than later,
    forthwith,
    directly,
    expeditiously,
    PDQ!

Well, I'm sure you catch my drift here -
and no, you don't have to tell me:
    I know I'm being very impatient
    and I'm being impatient with YOU
    who are forever patient with me...

As you know, Lord,
the things I want you to accomplish

(in record time)
aren't for me:
    it's all for others,
    for others whose needs are so much greater than mine,
    for others who are likely far more patient with you
    than I am with anyone

    - including you!

So, slow me down, Lord,
and give me patience:
    patience with you,
    patience with life,
    patience with my neighbor
    and patience with myself...

Remind me, let me see, Lord,
how patient you are with me:
    in my clumsiness,

    in my laziness,

    in my stubbornness,
    in my stalling,
    in my stumbling, procrastinating ways...

Remind me, let me see, Lord,
how patient you are with me
    when I waste your time and mine,
    when I drag my feet and dawdle along
    as if I had all the time in the world...

Remind me, let me see, Lord,
that patience is a virtue:
    a grace from your heart,
    an undeserved mercy,
    a gift for others and for me...

Let your patience with me
    be the patience I share with others,
especially with those who’ve understandably
    grown impatient with me and my ways...

Let your patience with me, Lord
    heal my impatience with you
and flow through my heart 

    with mercy and grace

and into the hearts 

    of everyone I meet and know,

    of all whose paths cross mine...

 

Protect me, Lord, while I'm awake

    and watch over me while I sleep

that awake, I might keep watch with you

    and asleep, rest in your peace...

Amen.

 

Love is Patient by David Brymer

 

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Love is patient, love is patient and kind 

Not withholding, always giving its time 

 

Faith, hope and love, these three remain 

But the greatest of these is love 

Faith, hope and love, these three remain 

But the greatest of these is love 

 

Love it suffers, love it suffers long 

Through the heartbreak, it keeps no record of wrongs 

 

Faith, hope and love, these three remain 

But the greatest of these is love 

Faith, hope and love, these three remain 

But the greatest of these is 

 

Love of God, flow through me, renew me 

Love of God, transform me to be holy 

Love, your love,

Ohhhh 

your love, your love when all is said and done 

 

Love is patient, love is patient and kind 

Not withholding, always giving it's time

 

 

 

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