Praying for something you dont want

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Dumb question, but I’ve got to ask it. I actually want to know how God receives a request like this: Oh God, you know I can’t tolerate being around so and so. I don’t even want to ask you to help me forgive them,.but I want to be merciful like you. In short, if my heart doesn’t want to forgive at all, but I do want to please God, will He be offended by my request? Will he help me forgive even if my heart isn’t in the prayer? I hope you can hear what I am trying to say. Thank you all.
 
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Dumb question, but I’ve got to ask it. I actually want to know how God receives a request like this: Oh God, you know I can’t tolerate being around so and so. I don’t even want to ask you to help me forgive them,.but I want to be merciful like you. In short, if my heart doesn’t want to forgive at all, but I do want to please God, will He be offended by my request? Will he help me forgive even if my heart isn’t in the prayer? I hope you can hear what I am trying to say. Thank you all.
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yes, that is good, because you cannot always help how you feel, and you do need God in order to be good and forgive, so you certainly can and should pray this way, and yes God will hear your prayer, because you want to do what is right, and you are going to the right place.
 
I always ask Our Lord for what I don’t want: patience, perserverance, calmity.

Our Lord knows what we need.
 
We don’t have to want what is good, we only have to want to want it.
 
Thanks, all. I thought this was the answer. Sometimes I start thinking, shouldn’t I be more loving and forgiving by now? Is God getting sick of my halfhearted requests to learn to forgive? He knows I haven’t forgiven yet. Some days more, other days not at all. I do wish I could be better. Im just so far from good, im afraid…
 
FWIW, I know one person who suffered from some serious long-term abuse had difficulty forgiving their abusers. Their prayer went along the lines of, “Dear God, my heart’s not able to forgive them… please forgive them for me.”
 
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