Wisdom of Solomon 14:3

Lead us by your own hand, step by step, through the uncertain maze of life,

While we beseech you to guide our wayward steps in the twilight.

By the gift and bestowal of your divine spirit,

5. Father Guides.

Lead us by the hand in the ways of your own choosing

Lead us everlastingly beside the waters of life.

When men pray for providential intervention in the circumstances of life, many times the answer to their prayer is their own changed attitudes toward life. But providence is not whimsical, neither is it fantastic nor magical. It is the slow and sure emergence of the mighty sovereign of the finite universes, whose majestic presence the evolving creatures occasionally detect in their universe progressions. Providence is the sure and certain march of the galaxies of space and the personalities of time toward the goals of eternity, first in the Supreme, then in the Ultimate, and perhaps in the Absolute. And in infinity we believe there is the same providence, and this is the will, the actions, the purpose of the Paradise Trinity thus motivating the cosmic panorama of universes upon universes.

Not as we wish, our loving Father, but as you desire the eternal good of your mortal children,

Our Father who is in the mystery,

Guide us ever upward in the pathway of light;