You can tell God you don’t like someone. He already knows. Start there and keep praying.

GRATITUDE

WHAT THIS MEANS

Honesty makes a better starting point than politeness. When you cannot stand somebody, the tidy prayer skips straight to blessings you do not mean, and nothing underneath it moves. Saying plainly that you do not like them is not disrespect; it is the first true thing you have said about the situation. Nothing gets worked on while you are still pretending it is fine.

Name the person this week, in your own unimpressive words, and then keep going past the complaint. Keep bringing them up for a fortnight and watch whether what you feel about them shifts even slightly.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Whose name is hard for you to say in prayer?

MORE IN FAITH, GRACE & PURPOSE

Free, with nothing to buy inside it.