A Prayer

The following is a prayer that many of the group requested be included in the blog.

This is the prayer that Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Chair of the United Nations Commission that drafted the Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, recited at bedtime every night of her adult life.

Our Father, who has set a restlessness in our hearts
And made us all seekers after that which we can never fully find,
Forbid us to be satisfied with what we make of life.
Draw us from base content to set our eyes on far-off goals.
Keep us at tasks too hard for us
That we may be driven to Thee for strength.
Deliver us from fretfulness and self-pitying;
Make us sure of the good we cannot see
And of the hidden good in the world.
Open our eyes to simple beauty all around us
And our hearts to the loveliness men hide from us
Because we do not try to understand them.
Save us from ourselves and show us a vision of a world made new.
Amen.