A Friday prayer: the strength to forbear

by chuckofish

John Singer Sargent’s portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife

“Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety, and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. Bless us, if it may be, in all our innocent endeavours. If it may not, give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune, and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Have a great weekend. Good luck with that quiet mind.