Saturday, October 4, 2014

Prayerful Advice from St. Francis

Peace with our neighbors, peace with animals, peace with the whole Earthcommunity is part of our challenge.  It begins with each one of us.  The Patron Saint of Ecology reminds us:

Lord, make me an instrument of Your 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.
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 dying
that we are born to eternal life.