One Little Prayer

Why do you notice the splinter in your brothers eye but not notice the wooden plank in your own? Matthew 7:3

I sure have a knack for overcomplicating things sometimes!  It’s easy to get tangled up in the stories and happenings in other peoples lives and forget that we aren’t saddled with the job of deciding and judging and sorting it all out.  Thank goodness that’s the work of the Father.  I’m simply called to love God and to love others.  Seems simple but rest assured, I can goof up even that very simple instruction.  God always has a way of yanking me back when I’ve wandered too far off.  This week he did it with a teeny little story.

A wise, old  middle-eastern mystic said this about himself. “I was a revolutionary when I was young and all my prayer to God was: ‘Lord, give me the energy to change the world.’ As I approached middle age and realized that my life was half-gone without my changing a single soul, I changed my prayer to : ‘Lord, give me the grace to change all those who come in to contact with me.  Just my family and friends and I shall be satisfied.’ Now that I am an old man and my days are numbered, I have begun to see how foolish I have been.  My one prayer now is: ‘Lord, give me the grace to change myself.’  If I had prayed for this right from the start, I would not have wasted my life.

A Seed To Plant:  Just read that little story a few times and ask the Lord to let it wash over you and change you.  I think the world will look a whole lot different if we get this one little prayer right!​

Blessings on your day!