Prayer
by Mary Stuart [out of The Treasure Chest]
Keep me, O Lord, from all pettiness. Let me be large in thought and word and deed. Let me leave off self-seeking and have done with fault-finding.
Help me put away all pretense, that I may meet my neighbor face to face, without self-pity and without prejudice.
May I never be hasty in my judgments, but generous to all and in all things.
Make me grow calm, serene, and gentle.
Teach me to put into action my better impulses and make me straightforward and unafraid.
Grant that I may realize that it is the trifling things of life that create differences, that in the higher things we are all one.
And, Oh Lord God, let me not forget to be kind!
1 Corinthians 13:4&5….”Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.”
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