A Wife's Prayer

Let us live up to what we have already attained. Phil 3:16

My Mom . . . the best Mom, Grandmom, Friend and Role Model for what Wives should look like, sent me this prayer. I thought it was beautiful and convicting. I am going to include the first and last paragraph here. If you would like to have the whole prayer (it is 1-page long) then please send me an e-mail himary@sbcglobal.net and I will forward it to you.
Lord teach us to love like you do, and to live UP to what we have already attained because of Your sacrifice.

A WIFE'S PRAYER
Lord, help me to be a good wife. I fully realize that I don’t have what it takes to be one without Your help. Take my selfishness, impatience, and irritability and turn them into kindness, long-suffering, and the willingness to bear all things. Take my old emotional habits, mindsets, automatic reactions, rude assumptions, and self-protective stance, and make me patient, kind, good, faithful, gentle, and self-controlled. Take the hardness of my heart and break down the walls with Your battering ram of revelation. Give me a new heart and work in me Your love, joy and peace (Galatians 5:22-23) I am not able to rise above who I am at this moment. Only You can transform me.

Make me a new person, Lord. Give me a fresh perspective, a positive outlook, and a renewed relationship with the man You have given me. Help me see my husband with new eyes, new appreciation, new love, new compassion, and new acceptance.
Give my husband a new wife . . . and let it be me! Amen.