The Third Day Of Giving: The Prayer

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The Prayer of St Francis of Assisi

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;

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.

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  1. this Prayer was ilg’s ‘walk-away’ from parochial (Roman Catholic) upbringing from 1st to 7th grade…you can nearly feel His spirit-education through His love of animals c(om)ing through this Prayer…

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