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Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Good Morning

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me bring love.
Where there is offence, let me bring pardon.
Where there is discord, let me bring union.
Where there is error, let me bring truth.
Where there is doubt, let me bring faith.
Where there is despair, let me bring hope.
Where there is darkness, let me bring your light.
Where there is sadness, let me bring joy.
O Master, let me not seek so much to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love,
for it is in giving that one receives,
it is in self-forgetting that one finds,
it is in pardoning that one is pardoned,
it is in dying that one is raised to eternal life.

--Prayer of St. Francis, although not evidently written by St. Francis

3 comments:

mdr said...

SE loves writing and enjoys poetry too.

gina said...

That was beautiful......

e.davis said...

How beautiful and comforting-am reading this as an early morning storm rages outside.