Prayer for grandmothers

Father, have mercy on me, according to Your lovingkindness.

David prayed this after a big public failure. I am praying it for the small private ones of an ordinary week. I lost my patience with the woman at the front desk at the doctor's office. I told a story about my son's wife with an edge I did not need. I let an old grievance against my brother come up at dinner and color the whole talk in a way that was not fair to him.

None of these are big scandals. All of them are sin.

Lord, I am not asking for mercy because I can fix it or say sorry well enough. I am asking because of who You are. Your lovingkindness has not changed. It is still the same foundation it has always been.

Apply Your mercy to the small failures of this week. Send me forward without the weight of them. Make me lighter by Your mercy, not by my own strength.

Amen.