Prayer: Awareness by Miriam Teichner

The prayer Awareness is an inspiring blessing that instructs us to stay aware of what we are doing each and every day and to pay attention to the direction that we are heading in.

God--let me be aware.
Let me not stumble blindly down the ways,
Just getting somehow safely through the days,
Not even groping for another hand,
Not even wondering why it all was planned,
Eyes to the ground unseeking for the light,
Soul never aching for a wild-winged flight,
Please, keep me eager just to do my share.
God--let me be aware.

God--let me be aware.
Stab my soul fiercely with others' pain,
Let me walk seeing horror and stain.
Let my hands, groping, find other hands.
Give me the heart that divines, understands.
Give me the courage, wounded, to fight.
Flood me with knowledge, drench me in light.
Please--keep me eager just to do my share.
God--let me be aware.

Miriam Teichner (1888 - ?)

Teichner was an American author and journalist. She took special courses in English and economics at the University of Michigan and became a member of the staff of the Detroit News after leaving school, where she wrote a daily column of verse and humor.

In 1915, she moved to New York City as special feature writer of the New York Globe. By 1921, she was working in Germany for the Detroit News and Associated Newspapers writing of post-war social and economic conditions