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LIFE LESSONS
Living by the Wisdom in the Prayer of St. Francis
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
And it’s in pardoning that we are pardoned
And it’s in dying that we are born to Eternal Life
Amen
Before I go on, I just want to say that I am not Catholic, nor was raised Catholic. In fact, my father considered himself an ex-Roman Catholic, having all religion stricken from him during his days at Jesuit high school. I never went to church as a child. There was only one thing I can remember that was religious at all and that was a statue of St. Francis. You know, the one of him standing with a bird on his shoulder. I loved that statue. It was not until my…
