Dear Jesus,
We sometimes fail to appreciate the people
who fill our day-to-day lives.
We take them for granted.
Be they spouses, children, other family members,
coworkers, friends, clerks, cleaners.
Our relationships become transactional
as if we are just doing business.
Help us to treat them with respect, care and kindness.
They too are made in your image.
They deserve our love.
Amen.
— By Columban Fr. John Comiskey