Dear First Pres,

 Years ago I found a fun book of children's letters to God.  As you can imagine, the letters are pretty entertaining while also being quite insightful. Here's an all time favorite that my sister and I sometimes recite:
Dear God, I bet it is very hard for you to love all of everybody in the whole world. There are only 4 people in our family and I can never do it.  Nan
   I love Nan. I join in her confession. I can hardly ever do it either. The good news is there's help for Nan, for me and for you, too. God is oh so willing to let His love for all of everybody flow through each of us. He can enable us to be loving, to act in loving ways, believe it or not, to everyone with whom you will gather around the table tomorrow. 
   I offer two prayers I have found most helpful over the years to release that love in and through me. The first is short, sweet and confessional. I don't recall the author.
"Lord, this is who I am unless you help me."
   The second is longer and perhaps already known to you. The prayer of St Francis:
Lord make me an instrument of your peace; Where there is hatred let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; And where there is sadness, joy.
 
O divine master grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; To be loved as to love; For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; And it's in dying that we are born to eternal life.   Amen
   Lord, hear our prayers ...

Grace & Peace,
Terry