Today's Theme: Trying to Fix Others
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Dear God,

Teach me how to mind my own business!
To take care of myself! To remember that there are
certain things that certain people have to go through.

Please remind me:
That I can't fix anyone; nor can I change them,
and when there is something that others cannot do
for themselves, they need to come to You, not me!

Give me the strength to:
Hear with compassion; to watch with empathy;
to pray and trust Your merciful grace; and how
to stay put and still until You tell me to move!

Allow me to be:
A guide to the lost; a teacher to the willing;
a blessing to the meek; a tool and not a doormat!

Inspire me to:
Give and move on; share without controlling;
expect the best for others now matter how bad
it looks; and to know when I don't do it, You will!



"Faith in the Valley,"
by Iyanla Vanzant
Simon & Schuster, 1998




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Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Where there is injury, pardon.
Where there is doubt, faith.
Where there is despair, hope.
Where there is darkness, light.
Where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled,
as to console;
to be understood, as to understand;
to be loved, as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive.
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.
Amen.

Prayer attributed to St. Francis of Assisi (1182-1226)

Random Bonus Quote:

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Lao Tzu (about 6th century BC)
Ancient Chinese philosopher

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