The Prayer of St. Francis

Lord, make me an instrument of thy 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.

- St. Francis (Francesco) of Assisi
  Italy
  13th century

 
                                 
 
Thorncrown Chapel
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
November 2, 2004
Wondrous little glass chapel in the Ozarks
 
                   
 
 
 
 
When God calls you to do something,
he enables you to do it.
                                                                                                   ~ Robert Schuller
 
 
 
The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes
than he who distrusts them.   
                                                                ~ Camillo Benso di Cavour  
 
 
 
 
Vicki and her aunt, Amy Lou, in Pierce City, Missouri
November 1, 2004
 
 
 
 
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right,
he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.
                                                        ~ Charles Wadsworth
 
 
 
 
November 7, 2004
 
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