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"Our Father, who has set a restlessness in our hearts

and made us all seekers after that which we can never fully find,

forbid us to be satisfied with what we make of life. 

Draw us from base content and set our eyes on far-off goals. 

Keep us at tasks too hard for us that we may be driven to Thee for strength.  Deliver us from fretfullness and self-pitying;

make us sure of the good we cannot see and of the hidden good in the world.  Open our eyes to simple beauty all around us

and our hearts to the loveliness men hide from us

because we do not try to understand them. 

Save us from ourselves

and show us a vision of a world made new." 

Eleanor Roosevelt's nightly prayer

(from Elliott Roosevelt and James Brough, Mother R., New York, Putnam's Sons 1977, p. 151)