Palomar District #24

A Collect of Club Women

-Mary Stewart, Colorado, 1904

Keep us, O 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 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

O Lord God, let us forget not to be kind.