PRAYER

Lord, make me an instrument

Of Thy peace.

Where there is hatred,

Let me sow love;

Where there is injury, pardon;

Where there is doubt, faith;

Where there is despair, hope;

Where there is darkness, light;

And where there is sadness, Joy.

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 dying, that we are born

To eternal life.

ST.FRANCIS OF ASSISI.

” Of all the poems I read in childhood, this was my most favorite. It described who I wanted to be as I loved nature as much as He did. There was a connection between us.”

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