Kristi's Saturday Prayer

Dear God,

Thank you for this wonderful life I live and for the promise of eternal life after this one is over.

Please give me patience for people who aren't on time. Currently it is my biggest pet peeve. Please don't let me think badly of them, but see where their time may be more important than mine or may be needed elsewhere. And if it's not, and they are just being jerks, well, I pray for patience and the ability to forgive people quickly.

Please help me to not think badly of my husband because his pile of laundry is twice as high as mine. Please help me to not dwell on the fact that doing laundry would be a miniscule chore if not for his need to change clothes 15 times a day.

There is so much for which I am thankful. One of which is Indian food. Thank you for Indian food and also for peanut butter. You were really onto something with this peanut butter thing.

Thank you for giving me a wonderful home to live in and the intelligence to sustain a good career, even on days when I'd rather stay at home and be a lazy bum.

Thank you for wonderful friends. I pray for them, that you would always fill their days with joy.

I pray for all the animals that don't have a warm place to sleep tonight and for those that don't receive the love and attention that we give our own pet. Give them warmth and love, heavenly father. They are innocents.

Thank you for the best family on the face of the earth. Thank you for giving me a mother who chose life when she chose to have me. Thank you for allowing me to be born in a country where my mother did indeed have that choice to make.

Thank you for a husband who is my best friend. Thank you for all the cool places we go together, both physically and emotionally. Please let us never forget how much we love each other even as the years pass. I can't imagine a life without him now, and it's hard to remember a time when I was without his love and companionship.

Thank you for giving him the ability to cook well, because, well, you know it's not exactly my strong point.

Help me to remember the two pilars upon which our faith is established--love of God and love of neighbor. You're like, the most rockin'est God ever, so there is no way I could forget to love you and praise you. But please, please help me, Lord, to remember to love my neighbor.

Love,

-kristi

AMEN!