Teach me my LORD
to be sweet and gentle
in all the events of life -
Disappointment,
in the thoughtlessness of others,
in the insincerity of those I trusted,
in the unfaithfulness
of those on whom I relied.
Let me put
myself aside
to think of the happiness of others
to hide my little pains and heartaches
so that I may be the only one
who sufferred from them.
Teach me to profit by sufferings
that comes accross my path.
Let me so use it that it may mellow
not harden nor embitter me.
that it may make me patient, not irritable.
that it may make me broad in my forgiveness
not narrow, not haughty, not overbearing.
May no one
be less good
for having come within my influence
no one less pure, less true, less kind,
less noble for having been
a fellow traveller in our
journey towards eternal life.
As I go
my rounds
from
one destruction to one another.
Let me whisper from time to time
a word of love to thee.
May my life be lived in the supernatural
full of power for good and strong in
it's purpose of sanctity.
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