A westward looking panorama of AlbuquerqueDecember 29 2005
Almighty God, the giver of wisdom, without whose help resolutions are vain, without whose blessing study is ineffectual; enable me, if it be your will, to attain such knowledge as may qualify me to direct the doubtful, and instruct the ignorant; to prevent wrongs and terminate contentions; and grant that I may use that knowledge which I shall attain to your glory and my own salvation, for Jesus Christ's sake. Amen.
-Samuel Johnson, English writer and lexicographer
[From The Communion of the Saints: Prayers of the Famous, ed. Horton Davies]
--the BB
