My 10%

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Today's post is a bit of a quickie, more of a thought than a full post but I read this story the other day in an email from Dennis Rainy co-founder of Family Life and had to share!

Early in our marriage, my wife Barbara and I started the habit of praying together before we fell asleep at night. But one night, it wasn’t so easy. In fact, we lay in bed facing in opposite directions, a chasm between us.
In my conscience, that still, small voice whispered, "Are you going to pray with her tonight?"
"I don’t like her tonight, Lord," I replied.
"I know you don’t. But you're the one who tells people you pray with your wife all the time."
"Yes, Lord. But you know she's 90% wrong."
"But," God reminded me, "your 10% started this whole thing."

Ohhh boy! It's always so easy to lay the blame on the other person instead of facing facts and realizing that while I might not have felt I was to blame in the beginning, I took the bait and I was the one who turned it into an even bigger problem. Taking responsibility for "my 10%" is definitely an area that I continue to work in. So much easier to point out "the speck in someone else's eye" and ignore the "log" in my own.