One method of personal prayer, and a widely taught approach, has the pray-er reflecting on the events of the day looking for light and shadows and sources of joy and sorrow. As I've tried to incorporate this element in my daily prayer, it has become clear to me that the discomfort or anxiety that I feel about various events or patterns in my life should lead me to pray about the source with an eye to possible changes I need to make or encourage. Not exactly rocket science but easy to forget.
There's someone in my life that I think is persistently dis-content. And has cause because of the demands in life that he/she has responded to that have limited their time/energy/money to do anything that they would like to do for fun or fulfillment or even for others goods. The problem is that it seems to flow from compulsion combined with obligation and without an ability to say "no" except when all resources have been completely drained. And this all makes them rather cranky, irritable and somewhat distant. There is a perpetual resignation in the air. It seems to me that their "generosity" in the end is limiting their LOVE - and they should probably pray about limits. But I'm not the one to tell them....
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