Fraternity-Testvériség, 1960 (38. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1960-03-01 / 3. szám

FRATERNITY

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Before leaving the subject of words, let’s take a quick glance at some of the new words in current usage. It is hard to believe that only thirty years ago people NEVER heard the following words: jet planes, sound barrier, split-level houses, radar, dacron, V-8 engines, Polaroid glasses and cameras, guided missiles, foam rubber, electric typewriters and razors, drive-in movies, color television, fiberglass, formica, automatic transmissions, frozen vegetables, atom bomb and the United Nations. Amazing, isn’t it???

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PRAYER

Recently a newly found friend gave me a “deskside prayer”. I keep a copy of it in my ever-present pocket notebook and, beginning the first day of Lent, my first reading takes place as I ride to work on the bus; the second reading just before I begin my afternoon’s work. I have found this prayer by an unknown author to be very helpful. Maybe you will, too.

Slow me down, Lord! Ease the pounding of my heart by quieting my mind. Steady my hurried pace with the vision of the eternal reach of time. Give me, amidst the confusion of my day, the calmness of the ever-lasting hills. Breach the tensions of my nerves and muscles with the soothing music of the singing streams that live in my memory.

Teach me the art of taking Minute Vacations ... of slowing down to look at a flower, to chat with a friend, to pat a dog, to read a few lines from a good book. Remind me each day of the fable of the hare and the tortoise that I may know that the race is not always to the swift, that there is more to life than increasing its speed.

Let me look upward into the branches of the towering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well. Slow me down, Lord, and inspire me to send my roots deep into the soil of life’s enduring values that I may grow toward the stars of my greater destiny. This I ask in Thy name. Amen.

C. ARTO