A Prayer
Lord, I want to be like you. I want to have your influence guide all I do. I have been thinking a lot about relationships, and how we interact with one another in this fallen world. Our form of communication is imperfect. We misunderstand one another. We give offense. We take offense. We impose motive and intent on the words spoken to us. We defend the words spoken by us. I want my relationships to be God-like and facilitated by my desire to communicate as perfectly as I can. My prayer: I want to lift people and bring light to their life. I want my conversations to be honest. I want to speak to people with love and compassion. I want them to be edified and uplifted by my counsel, if they are in need. I want to be kind and charitable. I want to be understood. I want to say what YOU want me to say. I want to say it in a way that they hear YOU in my words I know from experience that I can say things that are interpreted incorrectly. I am then forced to rethi...