A prayer for feelings hurt by gossip

Lord I come humbly before you today.  You know why I'm here dear Lord.  I just can't take it any more.  Their words slice through me as though I were butter and their words were a knife.  Most of what they are saying isn't true.  The rest of it is twisted.  It hurts me anyway.  I try not to seem offended, I laugh when I'm at work, but silently I'm hurting.  I really don't like it.  I wish they would stop.  Please give me beauty for ashes.  Surround my heart with your love.  Help me to see past their pettiness and mean spirited behavior.  Change me, O Lord so that I can stand above all that.  Make their comments become dust in a drought and blow them away.  I will watch them blow down the street and I will give you praise.  I will watch the people be moved from my presence, or I be moved from theirs, because I am a child of the most high God.  I will laugh with joy at my deliverance and I will sing a song of praise as I walk down the hall.  I will give thanks to thee O Lord for you are great and mighty.  You care about the great and the small.  You hear the smallest prayer of my heart and you rise to defend me, your child.  I thank you Lord for teaching them; I thank you Father for teaching me.  I am stronger and I know "from whence my help comes.  My help comes from you."  Thank you that You are always here for me.  Thank you that I can come to You in my time of need even with the smallest things.  Thank you for the love and concern you always show me.  I love you Lord Jesus.  In your name I pray.  Amen.