Dear Holy Spirit,
I beg your intervention.
I see the flaws so glaring after. Like a glowing ember from a fire put out. Clearly smoldering, smoking, and the stench is much stronger than the kindling it began with.
Selfishness is abandonment of you.
Letting go the wild wind of blame, irritation and impatience.
Lord, Lord, how I teach my children to think of themselves by what I do. I am the example of how to live, how to overcome, how to rise above the friction of pride against pride.
Yet I succumb to fits of relentless scolding over silliness completely overlooked until it somehow blocked my path.
Inconsistency I loathe…and lie down in.
Wake me before I round the bend I can’t turn back from. Raise the red flag and summon my greater powers of peace and joy and gentleness. Your fruit in me. I need you to open my eyes to the selfishness blinding me. I need Your quiet call. Your gentle turning.
Praying for peace in this today. Remember that it’s the Holy Spirit that corrects and the enemy that accuses.
“But you, O LORD, are a shield around me; you are my glory, the one who holds my head high.” Psalm 3:3
Love you.
It’s going well today. It hasn’t been a noticeable thing really, no fits, no tantrums, but I realize how often I let little things go and then scold the same offense, only because this time it hindered the schedule or my reading or something involving my time table. I’d like to see that before I do it…not after. I don’t like that quirk. 🙂