New Century Club "JUST be glad"

Petikan dari Jackson, W. (1996), Matfield Green in Rooted in the Land: Essays in Community and Place edited by William Vitek and Wes Jackson, New Haven: Yale University Press

Keep us, O God, from pettiness; Let us be large in thought, in word, in deed.
Let us be done with fault-finding and leave off self-seeking.
May we put away all pretence and meet each other face to face, without self-pity and without prejudice.
May we never be hasty in judgment and always generous.
Let us take time for all things; make us grow calm, serene, gentle.
Teach us to put in to action our better impulses; straightforward and unafraid.
Grant that we may realize it is the little things that create differences; that in the big things of life we are one.
And may we strive to touch and to know the great common woman’s heart of us all, and oh, Lord God, let us not forget to be kind
- Mary Stewart