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"Our Father God...
Help us to command this new day, meeting its joys with praise, its difficulties with fortitude, its doubts with fidelity. Direct our steps, guard us from error, deliver us from all evil; help us to sit where others sit, seeing life's tangled skein through the eyes of those less fortunate than ourselves. So make us faithful ministers of this stricken generation. We ask it in the dear Redeemer's name. Amen"
F.B.H., June 28, 1943

Our Father God,
...Forgive our foolish ways and our faltering faith. Our lives are so cluttered with the trivial and the trifling that mistaken magnitudes keep us from fixing our hearts on the great issues that at last prove to be the factors of our destiny. When common bushes along the way of our daily toil flame with divine fire, forgive us that so often we stand on holy ground with irreverent feet and unseeing eyes, conscious of the bush but not of the flame....

FBH June 7, 1943

“Lift us, we pray Thee, above the foggy valley of narrow loyalties and partisan interests to vaster vistas where small things are seen as small, and great things as great. In all our attitudes and decisions give us perspective and horizon. Remove far from us even unconscious bigotries and antipathies. Help us to recognize truth and to welcome revelation, from whatever quarter they arise. Disappointed with ourselves, shamed by our sins, defeated by life, haunted by fears, wounded by the world, we… Continue

Chaplain Aims High
A couple was touring the Capitol in Washington and the guide pointed to a tall, benevolent gentleman as the congressional chaplain. The lady asked, "What does the chaplain do? Does he pray for the Senate or House?" The guide answered, "No, he gets up, looks at the Congress, then prays for the country!"
From: The World's All-Time Best Collection of Good Clean Jokes, By: Bob Phillips