Father,
Sometimes it's very hard for me to offer others grace.
I find it easy to judge when someone doesn't do something like I do.
When someone doesn't think like I do.
When someone doesn't solve a problem like I do.
When someone doesn't understand something like I do.
When someone does something I don't "get" I find myself judging and not wondering. Wondering why they act, think, understand differently.
Lord, I know we all have different lenses with which we look at the world. But it's very hard for me to put on someone else's glasses when I am sure that what I do, think, act, and understand is right.
Lord, teach me to look inside my own heart and examine my own intentions and not the intentions of others. Help me be curious and not point fingers. Show me how to value the view that others have even when it's different from my own.
And when that view is contrary to the way of Jesus... Lord, may my first instinct be to pray and not to judge, write off, or spout off that person.
Give me a gracious heart.
Amen.
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