"I need you to be sweet"

Dr F. B. Meyer once told me that when he was young he was very irritable, and an old man told him that he had found relief from this very thing by looking up the moment he felt it coming, and saying, "Thy sweetness, Lord." ....Take the opposite of your temptation and look up inwardly, naming that opposite; Untruth--Thy truth, Lord; Unkindness--Thy kindness, Lord; Impatience--Thy patience, Lord; Selfishness--Thy unselfishness, Lord; Roughness--Thy gentleness, Lord; Discourtesy--Thy courtesy, Lord; Resentment, inward heat, fuss--Thy sweetness, Lord, Thy calmness, Thy peacefulness.--Edges of His Ways, Amy Carmichael