A graduate’s prayer
Published 12:28 am Saturday, June 4, 2011
Dear God, please help me to go forth
with great determination into a
world that needs me;
Help me also to realize that my future
path will be strewn with many
obstacles.
And give me the courage to face each
one, and the ability to overcome
it gracefully.
Help me, Gracious Lord, to understand
that I have yet learned but little;
And endow me, I beseech thee, with a
divine thirst for knowledge, that I
seek the light and know the truth
And have the faith to carry the torch of
love, always, and to relinquish hate
forever.
Help me, Kind Father, to be of some
value to the world at large, and to
live at peace with my fellowman all
the days of my life;
And give me the strength to represent
only that which is good, and worthy
of mankind,
And the integrity to stand with my
convictions that I may, though I
go down fighting for truth and
justice, leave a trail that is worthy
to be trodden by my offspring.
– William Guy Robinson
Washington
Editor’s note: As published in the Washington Daily News circa 1930s or 1940s. Our thanks to Marie Robinson, wife of the late author, for allowing it to be reprinted.