Lord, I really need help feeling grateful and peaceful and content this morning. I need help letting GO of all traces of bitterness and irritation. Even as I ask, I feel your Spirit helping me to forgive people for being so darn irresponsible, making my life harder by leaving their stuff in the washer and drier that they know everyone else has to use. Since I cannot do my own laundry first thing in the morning (they’ve left it overnight again), I have no idea at what time of day I will be able to use the machines, so I have to spend possibly the next 2 or 3 days walking back and forth, heavy load hefted over my shoulder, not knowing if it is just another wasted trip. So what? The exercise is good, and although I will look and feel like a fool and waste a bunch of time, no REAL harm is done. I still have everything I need, so I can just lower my expectations or hopes that people will act rationally and responsibly, and I will just appreciate the fact that I am alive and healthy and have work to do and a chance to grow and perhaps even emerge out of poverty some day. Maybe. Father, please help me to be more grateful for the blessings I have, and less concerned about the things I am lacking. Amen.