Living The Way We Pray...

I knelt to pray when day was done
And prayed: "O Lord, bless everyone:
Lift from each heart the pain,
And let the sick be well again."
And then I woke one day,
And carelessly went on my way,
The whole day long I did not try
To wipe a tear from any eye.
I did not try to share the load
Of any brother on the road;
I did not even go to see
The sick man just next door to me-
Yet once again when day was done
I prayed,: "O Lord, bless everyone,"
But as I prayed, to my ear
There came a voice that whispered clear:
"Pause, hypocrite, before you pray,
Whom have you tried to help today?
God's sweetest blessings always go
By hands that serve him here below."
And then I hid my face and cried:
"Forgive me God for I have lied,
Let me but live another day....
And I will live the way I pray."