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.