Good Morning, God
Lord, we've all gotten those emails or hand-written letters or the verbal memos that come across to us as terse, unlovely, dis-ingenuous or downright insulting. Sometimes these are intended to be a sharp jab, a hitting over the head with a brickbat, an intentional put-down, an insult to beat all insults.
But at other times, the words we read or hear we misinterpret. We read a hastily written note and in our haste, put more negativity into it than should be. We hear a voice and misinterpret the inflection and don't allow for the emotional state of the speaker and think the negativity is directed at us.
Lord, these days it seems that we have become super-sensitive to what is written and said, in marriages, in business, in politics and in religion. Lord, may we have the grace to give others the benefit of the doubt - and even forgiveness - when we hear and read things that rub us in a negative way. In fact, may grace abound!
In Jesus name, Amen.
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