First Sunday Service on 2 Jan 2011, came across this poem in the church bulletin. I would like to make this my prayer for 2011.
My Prayer
Teach me to love - for what is wealth or fame
but foam upon the restless sea of life,
a fading flower, a soon-forgotten name,
a sense of sore defeat ending the strife.
Help me to live - for living I shall grow;
denying self - perhaps my deepest grief
is nought when balanced with another's woe
wherein is neither respite nor relief.
Teach me humility - casting the beam
from mine own eye of prejudice and pride;
so may I see, through love's revealing gleam
in other lives the beauty long denied.
Lord, make me pure in thought, in word or deed,
my deepest motives under Thy control;
upon the sea of life in joy or need
be Thou the gracious Pilot of my soul!
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