Throughout the millennia of human history, up until the past two decades or so, people took for granted that the differences between men and women were so obvious as to need no comment. They accepted the way things were. But our easy assumptions have been assailed and confused, we have lost our bearings in a fog of rhetoric about something called equality, so that I find myself in the uncomfortable position of having to belabor to educated people what was once perfectly obvious to the simplest peasant.
Elisabeth Elliot

A prayer from a Queen

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Mary, Queen of Scots, granddaughter of Margaret Tudor

Keep me, O Lord, from all pettiness!  Let me be large in thought and word and deed.

Let me leave off self-seeking and be done with faultfinding.

Help me to put away all pretense, that I may meet my neighbor face to face without self-pity and without prejudice.

May I never be hasty in judgment, but generous to all and in all.  Make me grow calm, serene, and gentle.

Teach me to put into action my better impulses, and make me straight-forward and unafraid.

Grant that I may realize that is the trifling things in life which create differences; that in all the higher things we are all one.

And O Lord God, let me not forget to be kind!

  • Mary Stuart (Queen of Scots)