Your tooth is broken, your tongue torn, and you cry out against the restaurant. But tell me, who has truly been injured here? Not you, if you bear this with thanksgiving and patience. The one who wronged you by carelessness has done themselves a far greater harm, for they have acted unjustly. But you, when you suffer without returning evil, when you refuse to sharpen your tongue against them, you become like God. Do not pray against them, but for them, that they may repent of their negligence. For nothing delights God more than this.
Yet you ask for healing and swift relief, and rightly so, for our bodies are temples. Cry out to the Lord, who in the breaking of His own Body opened the gates of heaven. He who suffered not a bone to be broken on the cross now allows even a bone to be broken for our sake, that He might fill all things with His mercy. Pray, then, but let your understanding be fruitful: ask not only for the tongue to speak in prayer, but that your heart may interpret the meaning of this trial. For your spirit prays, but your mind must also grasp that this very affliction is a door to patience and divine favor.
Speedy recovery is a good thing, and God gives it. But do not let the bitterness of demanding justice from men consume you. The real injury is not the pain in your mouth, but the poison of resentment in your soul. If you endure this nobly, you gain rewards beyond counting. The broken tooth is a small thing; the broken will, mended by grace, becomes a mighty fortress. So pray for healing, yes, but also for the one who caused this. Then you shall be neither wounded in spirit nor unfruitful in understanding, but a partaker of Christ's own sufferings, who when reviled did not revile in return.