My morning prayer...

Dear Lord,

So far today, God, I've done all right.  I haven't gossiped, haven't lost my temper, haven't been greedy, grumpy, nasty, selfish or overindulgent.  I'm pretty glad about that.  But in a few minutes, God, I'm going to get out of bed and from there, I'm going to need a lot more help.

Thank you.

Amen

-source unknown

I had heard this before but when I was reading our small town paper this morning, which rarely has anything worth reading in it, it really hit home for me.  Especially the grumpy, nasty, losing my temper part.  I think this will be my new morning prayer every morning before I get out of bed!

Then to my surprise I also read this-

"The one thing children wear out faster than shoes is parents."

-John J. Plomp

I think I will put that one in my side bar!  OK still not earth shattering news, but brought a smile to my face.