Tapestry of Faith: Faith Like a River: A Program on Unitarian Universalist History for Adults

Handout 2: Capek Prayer

It is worthwhile to live and fight courageously for sacred ideals.

Oh blow ye evil winds into my body's fire; my soul you'll never unravel.

Even though disappointed a thousand times or fallen in the fight and everything worthless seem,

I have lived amidst eternity.

Be grateful, my soul,

My life was worth living.

He who who was pressed from all sides but remained victorious in spirit is welcomed into the choir of heroes.

He who overcame the fetters giving wing to the mind is entering into the golden age of the victorious.