Taking People As You Find Them

"Lord, you know how small and narrow I am on this point. I refuse so much to make allowances for people's weaknesses. And so when I see faults, especially faults that inconvenience me, I tend to write these persons off my book. I reject the good in them along with the bad. Dear King, teach me to change. Let me be big and take people as I find them. Let me look at their good points, and treat their faults in the same way I would treat bad thoughts - not give them a chance to enter my mind." [From "My Meditation on the Gospel", Rev. James E. Sullivan, pg. 424]