There's a Saint Louis, Missouri... Why Not a Saint Francis?
If you happen to be feeling overwhelmed at the moment, unappreciated, neglected, ignored, unloved, unsettled, diminished, disappointed, disillusioned, disgruntled, or just plain dissed, the following words from Saint Francis -- spoken over 800 years ago -- may be just what the doctor ordered.
By the way, you don't have to be a saint to get the value. Just a human being.
THE SAINT FRANCIS PRAYER
"O Lord, make me an instrument of Thy Peace!
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is discord, harmony;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light, and
Where there is sorrow, joy.
Oh 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 dying that we are born to Eternal Life."
Posted by Mitch Ditkoff at July 29, 2008 09:13 PM
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Thank you for this nice reminder of the prayer I copied (in Norwegian)on the back of a quote-card from the Bible........more than 40 years ago! That card is still with me and well used! "For ingen ting er umulig for Gud." "To God nothing is impossible".Luk.1-?
In my special "Quote-book" I've copied it in French.....I'm sure it's to be found in a lot of languages around the world !
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at August 4, 2008 02:20 PM
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