Prayer for Hope and Good Cheer

O God, who has given us the gift of courage so that we may endure hardness and meet danger with a resolute will, grant us Your spiritual benediction that we may have hope to carry us through frustration with good cheer and through defeats with an unrelenting faith in the ultimate victory of Your purpose.

--Wallace W. Robbins (1910-1988), Unitarian Universalist minister, found at Harvard Square Library



Image: Lu Hongnian, Jesus Calming the Storm

Prayer for Reality

O God, who hates illusion and loves reality: grant us a strong grasp of facts and a fair vision of truth; that neither the frights of pain nor the baits of false hopes may misdirect us, nor may we be kept from seeking You with a brave heart.

--Wallace W. Robbins (1910-1988), Unitarian Universalist minister, found at Harvard Square Library