G-d Let Me Be A Giver

Mary Carolyn Davies | 1888 - abt 1940 | American

G-d let me be a giver, and not one
Who only takes and takes unceasingly;
G-d, let me give, so that not just my own
but others' lives as well, may richer be.

Let me give out whatever I may hold
of what material things life may be heaping,
Let me give raiment, shelter, food or gold
If these are, through Thy bounty, in my keeping.

But greater than such fleeting treasures, may
I give my faith and hope and cheerfulness,
Belief and dreams and joy and laughter gay
some lonely soul to bless.