O God, it is easy to love the whole world,

  but hard to love the person one works next to;

O God, it is easy to campaign for world peace,

  but hard to contribute to the peace within my own home;

O God, it is easy to be fascinated with some new truth,

  and miss you in the thing I have known for so long;

O God, it is easy to share my home and possessions with people I like.

  Teach me how to be generous towards others.

Enable me today to say something,

  or do something that will make a difference to the discouraged,

  to the inexperienced, to the despairing.

Let no selfish concern with my own affairs shut me off from any today.

For your love’s sake.