wind blows deeply

A few of you may have been fortunate quick enough to have caught my post from yesterday. It was a lamentful rant on a series of recent conversations with a particular individual. I was hurt and bewildered by the responses I was receiving. I took the post down, because it, like most things said in haste, shouldn't have been said at all. Or at least in this forum.
Clarity came in my church service today. The gist is that there's something to be said for praying for someone else to receive the thing that you yourself most desire.
I would really like a relationship. A certain relationship. I am frustrated by the current state of things with a certain individual.
And so, for the first year in a long time, I will make a new year's resolution (to keep at least for the first week). I will pray for my married friends, my dating friends and my single friends. Pray for their relationships ... with each other, with their families/loved ones, with their friends and with God.
God has given me the gift to serve, to wait on others. If I pray for your needs, God will give me patience in my desires. If I pray for your needs, as selfish as it sounds, it will likely bring me closer to my God. And closer to my God means closer to His plans. And that can never be a bad place to be.