The Woman’s Club of Riverhead

Keep us, oh 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 judgement

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, 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 human heart of us all,

And, oh Lord God, let us foget not

To be kind.

Mary Stewart