August The Seventeenth

O FATHER, this day may bring some hard task to our life, or some hard trial to our love. We may grow weary, or sad, or hopeless in our lot. But, Father, our whole life until now has been one great proof of Thy care. Bread has come for our body, thoughts to our mind, love to our heart, and all from Thee. So help us, we implore Thee, while we still stand on this side of all that the day may bring, to resolve that we will trust Thee this day to shine into any gloom of the mind, to stand by us in any trial of our love, and to give us rest in Thy good time as we need. May this day be full of a power that shall bring us near to Thee, and make us more like Thee; and, O God, may we so trust Thee this day, that, when the day is done, our trust shall be firmer than ever. Then, when our lat day comes, and our work is dine, may we trust Thee in death and forever, in the spirit of Jesus Christ our Lord - Amen.

-- ROBERT COLLYER

Lancashire cotton mill worker, mother with her child, on her way to food shopping queue after a hard day's work as they pass "EXTRA EFFORT NOW MEANS BETTER LIVING SOONER" billboard. Location: Lancashire, United Kingdom, taken Apriil 1947 by photographer Nat Farbman. Life magazine archive.