The prayer of a mother-in-law

"Live in good agreement with each other." Romans 12.16

A future mother-in-law wrote to columnist Abigail Van Buren : "This summer, my son is going to marry his girlfriend, she's a lovely girl, she's already part of the family, I remember a prayer you had published, that of a woman who encourages herself at the dawn of being a mother-in-law."

To deal with different people requires maturity, patience ...

Here it is : "Lord, grant me to be happy that my son has chosen a companion, that I may love his qualities as his faults, when he says," Mom, I want to get married, "forbid me to scream. "How long is she pregnant ?" Help me not to bicker with my in-laws during the wedding preparations, and chase away my belief that my child would have done better to wait a bit. When I would grandmother, remind me that just like me, my children do not need advice to educate theirs.If you help me for all these things, maybe my children will be happy about my presence, and that I will not complain that they neglect me."

A pastor says : "A person who does not do things like us is not necessarily wrong, we are just different, so to deal with different people you need maturity, patience, not arguing. or whatever, if you go to them long enough you will have many opportunities to be offended."

Paul says : "Live in good agreement with one another ... Do not think of yourself as wise." You have to be humble to keep your own advice and to refrain from giving your adult child a notice that he or she does not ask.

A reflection for today

Ask yourself, and see if your relationships with your close entourage reflect humility and wisdom, welcome and benevolence ... ?

Bob Gass

Source (The Thought of the Day)