thought i would share....

A Collect for Club Women

Keep us, O 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 wach other face to face, without
selfy-pity and without prejudice.
May we never be hasty in judgment
and always generous.
Let us take time for all things;
make us grow calm, serene, gentle.
Teach us to put into action our
better impulses; straightforward
and unafraid.
Grant that we may realize it is
the little things that create differences;
that in the big things of life
we are as one.
And may we strive to touch and
to know the great common woman's
heart of us all, and oh, Lord God
let us not foget to be kind.
Mary Stewart