DEAR ABBY: When we were little, my father lovingly changed our evening prayer. As your readers know, it is:
"Now I lay me down to sleep,
"I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
"If I should die before I wake,
"I pray the Lord my soul to take."
My father deleted the last two mournful lines and taught my brother, Andy, sister, Polly, and me to say instead:
"Forgive my doing what was wrong,
"And make me pure and wise and strong."
Perhaps other parents and grandparents would like to say this with their little ones. Do you like this? My father's name was Casper Schenk of Des Moines, Iowa. -- PEGGY SMITH, ARIZONA CITY, ARIZ.
DEAR PEGGY: I like it very much. Your father was a sensible and sensitive man.