GFWC Collect

COLLECT FOR CLUBWOMEN 

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 at one. 

And may we strive to touch and to know the

great common human heart of us all,

and, Oh Lord God, let us forget not

to be kind.

Mary Stewart   |   April 1904