PRAYER OF SOCIAL WORKERS

O God, I sometimes think that I have the hardest job of all, because what I am really trying to do is make bad people good and to make foolish people wise. Help me never to lose patience; never to abandon hope; never to regard anyone with loathing or contempt; never to stop caring. Make me always sympathetic to failure; patient with folly; firm with shiftlessness, stern to cruelty, resolute against those who make vice and evil easier for others. Above all, never let love grow cold within my heart. Lord Jesus, you came to seek and to save that which was lost, and it is your work that I am still trying to do. Amen.