I subscribe to a daily prayer blog. The blog is published by women clergy from around the world. Each day a prayer is delivered to my RSS reader and I am blessed by the variety of offerings. Sometimes the prayers are originals written for the blog and other times they are shared with citations. Today's prayer touched me deeply. How often do we struggle with truthfulness, with gentleness, with listening? I share this pray with you with the hope that it will bless your day as it did mine.

O God, the Spirit of truth,
help us to be truthful with one another.
O God, the Spirit of gentleness,
help us to be gentle with one another.
O God, who knows what is in our hearts
more clearly than we do ourselves,
help us to hear one another.
O God, lead us in the way
of truth and love. Amen.

~~Richard Harries

Harries, Richard. "#362."The Book of a Thousand Prayers. Ed. Angela Ashwin. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2002. 150.