Prayer from the Parable of the Workers In the Vineyard

Father, the workers who started early got the same pay as the ones who came late. And something in me does not like that. I have watched a man come to You on his deathbed and felt the twitch. I have watched a colleague get the same promotion and felt it again. It is not that I was cheated. It is that I wanted to be favored. But Your pay was never a wage. It was always a gift. I did not earn my way in. I came hungry. Cure the twitch in me. Make me glad when latecomers receive the same grace I did. Keep me from being jealous of a God who is more generous than I am.

Amen.