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 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.
Amen

Thank you for posting this

Woa. That prayer hit me deep in my heart. I never learned how pray like that.
Now, I do. I cannot pray same prayer becaue I feel bad for what I did. Yes.
Coyote is very, very sad now. But I shall confess to the Lord:

Lord please forgive for yelling profanities at jerk who cut us off in traffic last night.
Lord forgive me for what I did to "pierced, tattooed, disinterested young man".
Lord forgive me for stealing money from that man who I later found out
that he was just a harmless old scary looking bum, begging for money.
Lord forgive for me pushing old couple at store that move slowly.

Yes. its true. But I didn know that old man was beggar until I was
questioned at police station, I didn know old people at store
were crippled, I thought they just making joke at me.
I didn know I tell you from my heart. My mind was't knowing what
it was thinking at that time. Now, Coyote realizes that it was wrong.
But the Lord shall forgive every bad deed. Yes. That is my prayer.

loool cool prayer.

Very nice....Though Provoking...