In Times Of Need ...

A Mother's Prayer

Lord, give me patience
when wee hands
tug at me with their
small demands.

Give me gentle and smiling eyes;
Keep my lips from hasty replies.

Let not weariness, confusion,
or noise.

Obscure my vision of life's
fleeting joys.

So, when in years to come,
my house is still-

No bitter memories its rooms
may fill.

Amen.