Prayers for loving difficult people
Showing kindness to a stranger
For grace toward the people who test your patience.
Also for kindness · stranger · random act of kindness · good samaritan · hospitality · helping someone · homeless person · love my neighbor · compassion · serve others · be kind
But a certain Samaritan, as he traveled, came where he was. When he saw him, he was moved with compassion, came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. He set him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him.
Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.
for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in.
So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.
The stranger who lives as a foreigner with you shall be to you as the native-born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you lived as foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.
Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.
A prayer
Original writing, not a quotation of Scripture.
Lord, I rush past so many people. The cleaner in the office, the tourist who looks lost, the elderly man struggling with his bags. The Samaritan stopped for a stranger when others walked by.
Slow me down today. Show me one person I can help, and give me the nerve to actually do it. Let my kindness point to yours, even if they never learn my name.
In Jesus' name, Amen.