prayer I found in an old prayer book

[derangeddarling]

I pray I will be happy
To start another year
As summer ends and summer friends
Begin to disappear.

I pray I will be able
To handle what they ask
Of me in school and yet keep cool
When I can't do the task.

I pray I will be ready
To face my friends again
If they have changed and rearranged
What friendship means to them.

I pray I will be eager
To try what's hard and new
And not lose sight of my soul's right
To shine through what I do.

It seemed appropriate.
6 days til I go back to Chicago.