the Prayer of St. Francis … (12/30/10)
“Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred let me sow love;
Where there is injury, let me sow pardon;
Where there is doubt, let me sow faith;
Where there is despair, let me sow hope;
Where there is darkness, let me sow light;
And where there is sadness, let me sow joy.
O divine Master,
Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love …
For it is in giving that we receive,
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in so dying that we are reborn to eternal life.”
~ St. Francis of Assisi
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