O God,
Help us to find inspiration and understanding from those who have come before us.
Let us be mindful of the words of the great American jurist, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. who once observed that “the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. To reach the port of heaven,” he said, “we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.”
Inertia and apathy doesn’t get a person to heaven’s gates, action does. It is not enough to have beliefs, one must work to make our ideals a reality, to constantly move forward and never be satisfied with the status quo, to always believe more can be done.
May the Holy One guide us with direction and inspiration so that we might move forward with a noble sense of purpose in our work and in our lives.
May this be God’s will--AMEN.
