Just For Today I Will Pray Blessing

Just for today I will be agreeable.  I will not criticize, not find fault, and not try to improve or control anybody except myself.  I will pray blessing on one person with whom I struggle to relate.

We may find it easy to bless some people but today we are asked to be agreeable and bless someone with whom we struggle to relate.  How do we do that?  If we’re honest most of us would like to avoid those with whom we struggle to relate.  How and where do we find the desire and willingness to bless them?  

We are not familiar with what is happening in another person’s life.  When we are upset about what someone said or did, perhaps we should first seek to bless that person with kind words so they might be encouraged. Just offering a listening ear or a helping hand may lessen the weight of pressure a person is under. Encouragement is never wasted.  Even if a person’s efforts fall short of our standard, giving thanks for a work they have done may provide a beautiful bridge to healing.  

Finally, it is important to be generous without keeping score of “who owes who” and “whose turn it is.”  If a score were kept on how many times God has blessed us and how many times we have given thanks, who would win? 

Prayer:  Heavenly Father, As You have unconditionally loved and blessed me, help me to be kind and to bless any person with whom I struggle to relate.  Amen

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