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A Prayer of Faith
Master of sweet and loving lore, Give us the open mind To know religion means no more, No less, than being kind.
Give us the comprehensive sight That sees another's need; And let our aim to set things right Prove God inspired our creed.
Give us the soul to know our kin That dwell in flock and herd, The voice to fight man's shameful sin Against the beast and bird.
Give us a heart with love so fraught For all created things, That even our unspoken thought Bears healing on its wings.
Give us religion that will cope With life's colossal woes, And turn a radiant face of hope On troops of pigmy foes.
Give us the mastery of our fate In thoughts so warm and white, They stamp upon the brows of hate Love's glorious seal of light.
Give us the strong, courageous faith That makes of pain a friend, And calls the secret word of death 'Beginning,' and not 'end.' - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
_________________ Hebrews 11:1 New King James Version (NKJV)
11 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
John 14:6 New King James Version (NKJV)
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
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