“We are annoyed when people approach us with urgent demands that disregard our own needs and feelings. That’s why clerks in stores or agents who offer various kinds of services get cranky with customers and clients. After twenty or thirty people demand things of them and show no concern about the clerk’s or the agent’s human needs, the clerk or agent becomes a bit testy. Today we remind ourselves to give that clerk or agent a compliment and a bit of thanks. And we want to approach God with praise and gratitude, not just with a shopping list of requests.”
Gary Lauenstein in The Redemptorists of the Denver Province blogpost for 2 December 2013.