GOD-centric Interior Spiritual Disciplines:

To live in a good and fair God of love

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The Higher Good

~ Theodore Parker

Dear God, I will not ask for wealth or fame,

Though once they would have joyed my carnal sense;

I shudder not to bear a hated name,

Wanting all wealth, myself my sole defense,

But give me, God, eyes to behold the truth,

A seeing sense that knows the eternal right;

A heart with pity filled and gentlest ruth;

A robust faith that makes all darkness light;

Give me power to labor for humankind;

Make me the mouth of such as cannot speak;

Eyes let me be to the groping and the blind;

A conscience to the base; and to the weak,

Let me be hands and feet; and to the foolish, mind;

And lead still farther on such as Your kingdom seek.

(Unitarian)