Lord, Make Me an Instrument of Your Peace

St. Francis of Assisi wrote a prayer

that we would do well to pray

and seek to live.

Though he inherited great wealth,

like many saints he chose

to surrender worldly possessions

and live a simple life poverty.

His life was one of loving God

and serving people.

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.

Where there is hated, let me sow love,

Where there is injury, pardon, 

Where there is doubt,faith,

Where there is despair, hope,

There there is darkness, light,

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 dying

that we are born to eternal life.

This is My Prayer

as I look toward 2014,

Bonnie:)