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O God our Father, thank you for
all ordinary; everyday things of life.
Thank you for good food
and good mind to enjoy them, for games
and for physical fitness to play them, for lessons
and for the mind to learn and think,
and for memories to remember.
Thanks be to God.
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O Lord, make us instrument of Thy peace.
Teach us to sow love, where there is hatred,
Pardon where there is injury. Help us to bring faith
where there is doubt, light where there is darkness,
hope where there is despair and happiness
where there is misery
Thanks be to God.
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Where the mind is without fear
and the head is held high,
where knowledge is free,
where the world has not been broken up
into fragments by narrow domestic walls,
where words come out from the
depth of truth, where tireless striving stretches,
its arms towards perfection;
where the clear stream of reason
has not lost its way into
the dreary desert sand of dead habit,
where the mind is led forward by Thee
into ever widening thought and action.
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father,
let my country awake.
Thanks be to God.
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