Pause for Prayer: TUESDAY 6/28

 

Thanks, Lord, for your patience with me,

even when I'm impatient with you:

    when I want (and demand!)

        that you do what I want, 

    that you follow my plan

    that you work on my schedule

    - instead of yours...

 

Thanks, Lord, for your attentiveness to my prayer,

especially when, for long periods of time,

    I pay you little attention

    - except when I want to ask you for a favor... 

 

Thanks, Lord,

for giving me so many second chances

    after I've blown so many before

    and don't really deserve yet another opportunity

    and the grace of a new beginning...

Thanks, Lord,

for loving me, especially when I fail to love 

    my neighbor,

    my colleagues at work

    and even members of my own family;

thanks for loving me, Lord,

    when I fail to love myself

    and, most of all,

    when I fail to love and trust in you...

And thanks, Lord,

for bearing with me on that one thing

that bothers me so much:

    - be patient with me as I try to let go;

    - hear and answer my prayer in my struggle;

    - be faithful in helping me work through this;

    - and give me, again and again,

         the grace to be free of that one thing

        that troubles me so much...

And thanks, Lord, for loving me:

with the love that's yours alone to give:

    the love from which I came to be,

    the love that keeps me going, day to day,

    the love for which I am most truly grateful...

Love me, Lord,      

    with love enough to spare,

    with love enough to share with everyone 

    I know and meet today...

Amen.

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