User:Dev920/Prayers

A few prayers I like to use occasionally when Wikipedia gets tiresome. : )

A version of the Serenity prayer
God, grant me the serenity to assume good faith in the face of extreme provocation, the courage to be relentlessly kind and reasonable, and the wisdom to know when to turn to mediation. Amen.

An Editor's prayer
By Dev920

When I am right and they are wrong, When the edits are short but the wars are long, Let me be kind but also strong. Help me defend my stance with grace, and attack the fact but not the face. O, lead us not to an ArbCom case! Give me the courage, for bad faith to spurn, When I lose patience, to calmly adjourn, Yet, finally calm, to softly return. God, grant me the strength, to stand for the true, argue for justice, see edit wars through; but make these all things I don't need to do! So when my work has another all riled; and the conflict to come looks sure to be wild; help me stay calm, Lord: kind, gentle and mild. Amen.

The Wikistress prayer
Adapted from Mary Stewart.

Keep us, O God, from Wikistress; let us be bold in thought, in word, in deed. Let us be done with fault finding and leave off self-seeking. May we put away all pretences and use the talk pages without rage, without self-pity, and without prejudice. May we never be hasty in reverts and always use edit summaries. Let us take time for new editors; help us to stay calm, serene, and gentle. Teach us to put in articles our better ideas, but refrain from attacking the edits of others. Grant that we may realise it is a few misguided editors that create difficulties; that in the cause of Wikipedia we are as one. O Lord, let us not forget to be kind. Amen.