Prayer

This prayer was inscribed by hand on the wall of Mother Teresa's room in her Home for Children in Calcutta. Based loosely on a composition by Dr. Kent M. Keith, I find these words as crackling thunder and lightening in my heart, even when read silently.

Volume adds nothing to truth but volume. While we wait for dramatic strikes of electrical lightening, God is quietly nudging us with His still, small voice. I hear it every time I read these words, penned and LIVED OUT by one of His most humble of servants.

The Prayer

People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway.
What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. Create anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, will often be forgotten. Do good anyway.
Give the best you have, and it will never be enough. Give your best anyway.
In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.

~Mother Teresa