O Lord, my God! Give me Thy grace to serve Thy loved ones,
strengthen me in my servitude to Thee, illumine my brow with the light of
adoration in Thy court of holiness, and of prayer to Thy Kingdom of grandeur.
Help me to be selfless at the heavenly entrance of Thy gate, and aid me to be
detached from all things within Thy holy precincts. Lord! Give me to drink from
the chalice of selflessness; with its robe clothe me, and in its ocean immerse
me. Make me as dust in the pathway of Thy loved ones, and grant that I may
offer up my soul for the earth ennobled by the footsteps of Thy chosen ones in
Thy path, O Lord of Glory in the Highest.
- 'Abdu'l-Baha (Selections from
the Writings of Abdu'l-Baha)
