When I'm called to duty God,
Wherever flames may rage
Give me strength to save a life,
Whatever be it's age.
Help me to embrace a little child
Before it is to late.
Or save an older person from
The horror of that fate.
Enable me to be alert
To hear the weakest shout
And quickly and efficiently
To put the fire out
I want to fill my calling and
To give the best in me
To guard my neighbor and
Protect his property
And if according to your will
I have to lose my life
Bless with your protecting hand
My children and my wife.
God, give us grace to accept with serenity
the things that cannot be changed,
courage to change the things
which should be changed,
and the wisdom to distinguish
the one from the other.
Living one day at a time,
Enjoying one moment at a time,
Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace,
Taking, as Jesus did,
This sinful world as it is,
Not as I would have it,
Trusting that You will make all things right,
If I surrender to Your will,
So that I may be reasonably happy in this life,
And supremely happy with You forever in the next.
Amen.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
