Pause for Prayer: THURSDAY 6/4

 

Lord, there are so many ways 

    I wish I were more like you!

 

How I'd love to have your openness,

    your willingness, your capacity

to tolerate, to work with, to live with

    all my loose ends, last minute changes

and the unexpected twist and turns

    on the road I walk in life...

You rule, Lord, when it comes to 

    staying in the moment,

    taking things in stride,

    surviving disappointment 

    and never losing your cool...

Me? 

 

I get impatient 

    when things move too slowly
and frustrated 

    when things move too quickly...

I get cranky and irritable 

    when things don't go as I wanted,

     as I'd wished and hoped and prayed for...

I get angry at

    - well I often get angry -
at whatever or whomever's 

    most directly in my path...

All in all, Lord, I often 

    respond, reply and react
in pouting, petulant, peevish ways

    - and fail to follow you...

In your cool, considered 

    and compassionate manner, 
you don't miss a trick, Lord,
    you see the whole picture,  

    the visible and the invisible,

    inside and outside;

you see more 

    than the sum of the parts;

you see what's hurting, hidden and secret,

    you see the depths of my heart...

Help me, Lord, 

    be more like you...

Open the eyes of my heart
    and open the eyes of my mind and my soul
        'til I can see as you see, Lord,
        'til I can understand as you understand,

        forgive as you forgive

        and love others - as you love me...

 

Lord, there are oh- so-many ways 

    I wish I were more like you!

Help me draw on your patient compassion, Lord,
    'til your merciful wisdom
        becomes my own...

 

Amen.

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