Best Prayer I Have Heard In A Long Time...
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> >>
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> >> Heavenly Father, Help us remember that the jerk who cut us off in
> >> traffic
> >> last night is a single mother who worked nine hours that day and is
> >> rushing
> >> home to cook dinner, help with homework, do the laundry and spend a few
> >> precious
> >> moments with her children.
> >>
> >>
> >> Help us to remember that the pierced, tattooed, disinterested young man
> >> who
> >> can't make change correctly is a worried 19-year-old college student,
> >> balancing his apprehension over final exams with his fear of not getting
> >> his student
> >> loans for next semester.
> >>
> >>
> >> Remind us, Lord, that the scary looking bum, begging for money in the
> >> same
> >> spot every day (who really ought to get a job!) is a slave to addictions
> >> that
> >> we can only imagine in our worst nightmares
> >>
> >>
> >> Help us to remember that the old couple walking annoyingly slow through
> >> the
> >> store aisles and blocking our shopping progress are savoring this
> >> moment,
> >> knowing that, based on the biopsy report she got back last week, this
> >> will be
> >> the last year that they go shopping together
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Heavenly Father, remind us each day that, of all the gifts you give us,
> >> the
> >> greatest gift is love. It is not enough to share that love with those we
> >> hold
> >> dear. Open our hearts not to just those who are close to us, but to all
> >> humanity. Let us be slow to judge and quick to forgive, show patience,
> >> empathy
> >> and love.
With all of us feeling the way that we do, I thought I would pass this along.
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but now that I'm done with all my Christmas shopping, wrapping and baking... and I have everything packed in our car to take over to Shelly/Bob's... I'm feeling much better. (but I still can't wait until it's all over with... 
) Oh yeah... all that wood James brought over??? They gave it to us... FREE!! Our Christmas present... 
Thought that was pretty awsome!
