Steward's Prayer

"Grant me, Oh Lord, the genius to explain to my Brothers and Sisters the policies and plans of our great Union even though no one explains them to me.

Give to me the understanding that I may forgive the apathetic member, curb the overly ambitious member and accept the views of the member who does nothing until I have done something, and then tells me what I should have done and how I should have done it.

Oh Lord, make me formidable in debate, logical in argument and fearless in confrontation. Let me be a lawyer actor, mathematician, sage, philosopher, sociologist, and economist: pleasing, cajoling, threatening and belaboring so that I may make the best of a good case and a good case from no case at all.

Teach me, Oh Lord, to stand at all times with both feet firmly on the ground ---- even when I haven’t a leg to stand on."