#1 Halloween

"Teach Me"

Teach me, O Lord,

to be sweet and gentle in all the events of life;

in disappointments, in the thoughtlessness of others,

in the insincerity of those I trusted,

in the unfaithfulness of those on whom I relied.

Teach me to profit by the suffering that comes across my path.

May no one be less good for having come within my influence,

no one less pure, less true, less kind, less noble

for having been a fellow-traveler in our journey

toward eternal life.