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Keep us, 0 God, from pettiness; let us be large
in thought, in word, in deed.
Let us be done with fault-finding and leave off
self-seeking.
May we put away all pretense and meet each
other face to face, without self-pity and
without prejudice.

May we never be hasty in judgment and
always generous.
Let us take time for all things; make us to
grow calm, serene, gentle.
Teach us to put into action our better
impulses, straight-forward and unafraid.
Grant that it is the little things that create
differences, that in the big things of life we
are at one.
And may we strive to touch and to know the
great human heart of us all,
And, 0 Lord God, let us forget not to be kind.

-Mary Stewart, 1904
(b 1876, d 1943)