07/16/2026
~Eleanor Roosevelt’s Nightly Prayer ~
"Our Father, who has set a restlessness in our hearts and made us all seekers after that which we can never fully find, forbid us to be satisfied with what we make of life.
Draw us from base content, and set our eyes on far-off goals. Keep us at tasks too hard for us that we may be driven to thee for strength. Deliver us from fretfulness and self-pitying; make us sure of the good we cannot see and the hidden good in the world.
Open our eyes to simple beauty all around us and our hearts to the loveliness men hide because we do not try to understand them. Save us from ourselves and show us a vision of a world made new. May the spirit of peace and illumination so enlighten our minds that all life shall glow with new meaning and new purpose; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen."
Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt.
Reprinted from, Daughters of the King, Cross
links, July 2026 edition.
