Today's prayer (please refer to my post from April 2007 on How to Pray for instructions on how to create your own perfectly crafted praryer...it was by far one of my favourite posts...)
Dear Lord, I am forever in awe of your creativity and originality.
I'm guessing you are sitting in your royal lazy boy having a great laugh at the current trials you have sent me.
You are so amazing for teaching me to be patient, to live without a long term plan, to live without an income, to budget, to shop more responsibly, and to appreciate the non-material goods in life.
I confess that I have used your name in multiple profanities today. I do not always understand the new and creative ways in which you challenge my life. For example - I do not know why you wanted to test my patience again by having my credit card used in fraud, and then cancelled. You see God - I'm trying to finish renovating and plan a move...so maybe this is not only teaching me patience, but also better budgeting. I'm not sure.
I am thankful that there is money in my bank account so I can eat, while I sit on the couch waiting for a credit card so that I can complete the order on my new kitchen counter and sink. And thankful that I will have the pleasure of speaking to so many medical societies AGAIN on the phone to reorder transcripts, since my payment will no longer be accepted on the cancelled credit card.
Please give all my creditors patience, and lead them not into overdue notices, for my new card will not arrive until at least next week....in Toronto.....since I already changed that address.
Grant me the strength to not personally hunt down whoever copied my debit card earlier this year leading it to be cancelled while I lived in Asia with no possibility of a replacement card, nor the person who just copied my credit card leading me into this pit of profanity and declined charges. Also please bind my hands from strangling the bank advisor who suggested one month ago that I cancel my second credit card, since I really didn't need two.
Your confused friend,
Pamela
p.s. Maybe you could just tone down the summer heat a degree or two?
Oh Lord give me patience....right now! - as my Gammie used to say.
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