a prayer

 Great Spirit of life teach me patience:
 As an act of faith
 I cannot survive without it.

 Great Spirit of life teach me forgiveness:
 As an act of healing
 I cannot survive without it.

 Great Spirit of life teach me honesty:
 As a process of being truthfully alive
 I cannot survive without it.

 Great Spirit of life teach me love:
 Each moment becoming;
 fulfilling patience, forgiveness and truth.
 

 Lloyd Marbet 7/17/89