Prayer for Today
Just for today, I’ll try to overlook the less gifted. They know not what they do.
Just for today, I’ll remember to be thankful for all that I have been given.
Just for today, I’ll try not to get annoyed, when people ask me dumb questions, or request something I cannot give.
Just for today, I’ll try to forgive other people their agendas, remembering that we all have them.
Just for today, I’ll remember that each day is a gift, and that another one may not come my way.
Just for today, I’ll overlook the petty jealousies that seem to crop up in others, in any profession.
Just for today, I’ll celebrate TODAY, for this day will come but once in my lifetime.
Just for today, I’ll walk in the yard, examining each bloom, one by one, knowing that, like me, the season of each flower will end, and each will shrink and be no more.
Just for today, I’ll try to get the Big Picture, looking behind me, to either side, and then, straight ahead, and like an old horse with blinders, I will continue to plod along.
Just for today, I’ll do all the work expected of me, in full measure, even if that work is that expected of myself only.
Just for today, I’ll avoid dwelling on my aches and pains. Like the 17th century nun, love of reciting my ailments grows sweeter with age.
Just for today, a smile shall be on my lips, and a renewed sense of joy shall mingle with my spirit, for I am here, never to be here again in the same way as on this day. I will be ONE with the universe.
Patricia Cummings
