Try Praying: My big issue is...

Been noticing I get frustrated, or,

at times I get reactive quickly too.

I've seen it four or five times (well there's more

as now I think about it). What to do?

And that's the secret common thing about

the times I get there. Mostly I don't know

which way to go, I’ve tried a few, run out

of options (that I  know of here below).

Right then, the circumstances are my friend,

they show me (& could  even help to train)

the place where I am heading in the end.

They're feedback so I focus right a-gain.

I'm in a process God shares with me now,

of growing up a tiny baby god,

from zygote, then to embryo somehow,

and on to foetus, then out comes the lot…

The other day, while teaching at a school,

and after we had had a quite severe

and honest talk together  - yr 10 girl,

the bell rang, then she burst right into tears.

Please help me God, to learn how to be more

like YOU are, gracious. I know what to do!

I WILL look UP to you, to ask you for

your wisdom and creative options too.

And after other things with other folk,

I realise sometimes I must accept

my own discomfort, just sit there and soak

up pain and injustice. He even wept!

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