Prayer for Humility—A Poem

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I found this interesting poem among the many (and I mean MANY) clippings in folder #131. "The Presence of God":

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Prayer for Humility, by Burnham Eaton

God of the simple trees:

Deliver us from vainglory.

God of the flowering of the Earth:

Deliver us from pride.

—That we may reach toward Thee

As a bare tree in winter

Reaches toward the sun

Itself lined on every branch with light.

—That we may flower richly

As a tree in summer

Not from self-light

But from higher light.

—That our life my bear fruit

Not with pompous glitter

But as the forthright

And simple tree.

God of true light:

May we come as near to Thee

With as clear view unbroken

As the tree to the sky. . .

Help us to cast so lovely a shadow

Upon Earth.