OPEN MY EYES

God open my eyes so I may see

and feel your presence close to me...

Give me strength for my stumbling feet

as I battle the crowd on life's busy street.

And widen the vision of my unseeing eyes

so in passing faces I'll recognize

Not just a stranger unloved and unknown,

But a friend with a heart much like my own...

Give me perception to make me aware

that scattered profusely on life's throughfare

Are the best gifts of God that we daily pass by

As we look at the world with an unseeing eye.

-Helen Steiner Rice