A prayer by A.de Saint-Exupéry


We do not ask not for miracles and visions, God, but for power in everyday life!
Teach us the art of progressing in small steps. Make us resourceful and inventive in order to recognize our knowledge and experiences, to deal with the diversity and sundries we are concerned with.

Ensure we improve in organization of timing, and give us the tact to find out what is primary and what is secondary. Let us realize that dreams do not help, neither with the past nor with the future. Help us to do the next step as good as possible, and help us to see that the current hour is the most important to recognize.

Save us from the naive belief that everything in life has to go smoothly. Give us the sober realization that difficulties, defeats, failures, and setbacks are a natural addition to life, by which we grow and mature. Remind us that the heart often strikes against the mind. Send us someone in the right moment who has the courage to tell us the truth.

We want to listen to you and our fellow human beings. The truth one does not tell himself, it is delivered by others. You know how much we need love. Give that we can cope and grow with this most beautiful, most difficult, most risky and most delicate business in our lives.

Bless us with the necessary imagination, to deliver a packet of kindness, in the right moment, with or without words, in the correct place. Make us to people who are similar to a ship with draft in order to reach out to those at the bottom. Save us from the fear that we might miss life.

Give us not what we want, God, but what we need!

Amen.