PRAYER FOR KINDNESS... DEAR JESUS,MAKE ME KIND.I LOOK AT YOUR LIFE AND YOUR KINDNESS STANDS OUT LIKE A LONE STAR ON A DARK NIGHT.NO MATTER HOW TIRED YOU WERE YOU ALWAYS HAD TIME FOR THE SICK,POOR SINNERS,CHILDREN,AND ALL THOSE IN NEED.YOUR HEART HAD SYMPATHY FOR THEIR WEAKNESSES AND YOU REACHED OUT TO THEM WITH LOVING COMPASSION.WHEN I FEEL IMPATIENT WITH THE FRAILTIES OF MY NEIGHBOR,LORD JESUS,GRANT THAT I MAY NOT ONLY THINK OF YOUR KINDNESS BUT STOP FOR A MOMENT AND ENTER INTO IT;LET ME FEEL YOUR KINDNESS IN THE DEPTHS OF MY SOUL SO THAT MY PRAYER WILL NOT BE EMPTY.I NEED TO PARTICIPATE IN YOUR KINDNESS IF I AM TO BE KIND.I CANNOT DO IT ON MY OWN.MY POOR SOUKS TENDS TO BE CRITICAL OF OTHERS AND THIS MAKES ME IMPATIENT AND UNKIND.YOU UNDERSTOOD HUMAN NATURE SO WELL THAT YOU GAVE EVERYONE AN OPPORTUNITY TO REPENT.YOU NEVER PICKED OUT THE TRIVAL FAULTS OF YOUR APOSTLES OR DEMANDED EXTERIOR PERFECTION.THE ONLY TIME YOI CORRECTED THEM WAS WHEN THE FAULTS THEY COMMITTED WERE DEEPLY INTERIOR AND ENDANGERED THEOR UNION WITH YOU AND TGE FATHER.JEALOUSY,AMBITION,AND GREED WERE THE FAULTS THAT YOU QUICKLY BROUGHT OUT INTO THE OPEN SO YOU COULD cleanse THE APOSTLES OF THESE DANGEROUS TEMPTATIONS.GIVE ME THE GRACE,LORD JESUS,TO DISTIGUISH BETWEEN faults OF CHARACTER THAT FORM PART OF MY NEIGHBORS TEMPERAMENT AND EVIL TENDENCIES THAT DESTROY GRACE IN HIS SOUL.HELP ME TO INDURE THE FORMER with love AND TO CORRECT THE LATTER WITH COURAGE.HELP ME TO LOVE THE SINNER BUY NEVER CONDONE HIS SIN.PLEASE,DEAR JESUS,LET ME first REMOVE THE BEAM FROM MY OWN EYE BEFORE I EVEN SEE THE SPLINTER IN THE EYE OF MY NEIGHBOR.AMEN
Posted on: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 21:41:22 +0000
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