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By, Dolores Pringle,
Director of Activity ~
Bishop McCarthy Residence
Dear Lord,
Give me the strength to stimulate today
those that are placed within my care.
Help me to lift their sorrow,
and erase their pain
And brighten their lonesome way.
Grant me the patience to listen with ease,
To the same story they told me yesterday.
Help me to maintain their dignity
by judging not their
repetition and forgetfulness, please.
Empower me Lord, with Your kind and gentle ways -
As to understand, to love and inspire.
Guide me pleasantly through their reminiscence
As back into their lovely lives I gaze.
Help me hear with ears of fond appreciation
and to see through their experienced eyes of wisdom.
Allow me to open my heart with gratitude
For, they are the ones that struggled for our Great Nation.
Allow me keep an open mind to all the newest resources
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So I can fully understand the gravity of it all.
To Inspire, to challenge, to sing and to dance!
And keep me to yearning for all the latest therapeutic courses.
Provide me with
the fortitude to call the BINGO balls,
And allow my hands to manipulate,
to imaginatively design and create.
Lord, help me to keep abreast of the latest
therapeutic techniques
And give me daily vigor,
to energetically travel these halls.
So here I am Dear Lord,
Your devoted Activity Professional, in quest of Your aide.
Take my hand and lead me
productively through this Nursing Home.
Guide me onward to do this work
with a happy heart and flight of feet.
For I know there is a special place for us ~
because, that’s why Heaven was made.
Amen
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