God, our Father, forgive us that
we so often give our best to the wrong things.
Sometimes we put far more
enthusiasm and thought and effort into our pleasures and our games and our
amusement than we do into our work.
Sometimes we keep our best
behavior for strangers and our worst behavior for our own homes; and often we
treat our nearest and dearest with a discourtesy and disregard we would never
show to strangers.
Sometimes we get irritated and
annoyed and angry about things which in our calmer moments we know do not
matter.
Sometimes we lose our temper in
an argument about trifles.
Sometimes we allow very little
things to cause a quarrel with a friend.
Help us to see what is important
and what is unimportant, so that we may never forget the things that matter,
and so that we may never allow the things which do not matter to matter too
much.
So true. Thanks for the reminder. (BTW, did you paint that picture. It's beautiful.)
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