Monday, May 27, 2024

Dear God,

I just borrowed a book entitled Just Mercy.  It is a book about justice, one I will read with deep interest.  However, the title has caught my attention.  Just Mercy.  What if I decided to make my life about mercy?

When I get into an argument with my husband, what if I offered mercy instead of judgement?  What about the political mess in our country?  What if I looked at those I dislike and thought about them through the eyes of mercy?  What about the driver that cuts me off, the arrogant person who cuts in line at the store or the friend who embarrasses me?  How might I change me and possibly them if I acted mercifully?  What if our family made a decision to be a family of mercy?  How might we change the world around us?

Holy God,

I desperately want

to be merciful.

I fail

over and 

over again.

Please fill me

with divine mercy

that it

may overflow

out, down

and over

to others.

Love, Andrea