Prayer for August 19, 2021

Prayer for August 21, 2021: Please pray with me. God who shapes us and sends us out, we are a work in progress. So often we just want to jump to the end, simplify, and cut out the frills. We think this will save us time. Often it costs us more time than it saves because we spend so much more time sorting through the mess. Open us to pause. To listen. to hear. To consider. Open our hearts to really hear what others are saying, rather than preparing a defense against what they say. Open our ears to listen so that we might learn something. Open us to know that a criticism isn’t always an attack that needs a…