His Righteousness

Dear friend, Last week I posted a beautiful prayer that was published on full-page ads in major magazines back on July 4, 1952. The author of this prayer was a man born in 1897 a man who lived through many world shattering events including World War I, the 1918 pandemic, the Great Depression and World War II. According to Wikipedia, Mr. Conrad Hilton learned his entrepreneurial skills working for his father and started his successful career around the age of 32. According to Wikipedia and Mr. Hilton’s autobiography, “Be My Guest” copyright 1958 by the Prentice Hall Press ‘The most enduring influence to shape Hilton’s philanthropic philosophy beyond that of his parents was the Catholic Church and his sisters. He credited his mother with guiding him to prayer and the church whenever he was troubled or dismayed—from the boyhood loss of a beloved pony to severe financial losses during the Great Depression. His mother continually told him that prayer was the best investment he would ever make.’

 Mr. Hilton’s personal life was not exemplary; he did not always act as a Christian should. He was a man consumed in his business affairs working hard to become more success and to retain his wealth but deep down I believe that his mother’s influence to pray was in his nature. Our world was in a a very dark place in 1952 so when Mr. Hilton thought about the things that truly mattered, ‘using our wealth, our strength to help our brother (and sister) instead of destroying him (or her)’ he wrote this beautiful prayer and had it published in major magazines on July 4, 1952 for all the world to read.

John Muir wrote: “Most people are on the world, not in it — have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them — undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.” Mr. Hilton may have been a man ‘on the world’ but when it counted, he got in the world and through his prayer got to the world.

Whatever your position in this world is please do not lose sight of what is truly important – God’s righteousness and his desire for us to follow him then let ‘rejoicing in the Lord be your strength’.

Prayer: Our Father in heaven, we humbly ask that you fill us with your wisdom and strength to do what is right and just in and for our world and our fellow man and woman. Forgive us our sins and help us to overcome our fears and the evils of this world. We ask this in the name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen

May God be with you and may he continue to protect and guide you and yours!

Peace, love, joy and thanksgiving in Christ Jesus, our Savior!

Marie Antoinette

All life matters – from conception on!