Last month four interns gave me a gift I will never forget. It was a beautifully framed prayer which they gave out of their appreciation for the opportunity and memorable experience they have in our institution. (Well, you know who you are!)

Sometimes I feel guilty for not having enough time to guide them during their internship because of my busy schedule and workload but I hope that the little things I shared with them they will not forget.

I also hope that once in a while, whatever it is that they will be doing in their professional life, they will still have time to say...

A PHARMACIST'S PRAYER

O God, great Master

Of the healing arts,

Bless my slow unwieldy hands;

Make skilled and sensitive

My fingertips for all demands;

As counter for disaster,

Fill my mental starts

With keenness; let me live

That other lives may through

Deft Medium of my science,

Pursuance find in health.

Let each capsule that I count

Yield strength rewarding wealth;

Each ointment for appliance,

In all and each amount

Be healing prayer.

Let me ne'er forget

Thy generous Providence

Held within my trembling hands.

Help me justly execute, dispense.

And be cautious of my ware --

And while Life's hour-glass yet

Runs, with the doctor guide its sands.

Place within my heart

Alert and wholesome fear,

Lest I misweigh a single grain,

And Death comes stalking from my shelves.

Make impotent limbs to walk; pain

And sorrow's counterpart

With my potions disappear;

And God's give Hope unto themselves.

- Sister Mary Juanilla, O.S.F.