Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board
Voicelessness and Emotional Survival => Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board => Topic started by: Gabben on June 17, 2008, 12:19:27 PM
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There are many here on this board who live this prayer:
THE PRAYER OF ST. FRANCIS
Lord, make me a channel of thy peace,
that where there is hatred, I may bring love;
that where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness;
that where there is discord, I may bring harmony;
that where there is error, I may bring truth;
that where there is doubt, I may bring faith;
that where there is despair, I may bring hope;
that where there are shadows, I may bring light;
that where there is sadness, I may bring joy.
Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort than to be comforted;
to understand, than to be understood;
to love, than to be loved.
For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.
It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.
It is by dying that one awakens to Eternal Life.
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(((Gabbin)))
That was a prayer that calmed and centered me during some very tough times.
Thanks for bringing it back to the board....
and my attention.
Lighter
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Thanks lighter...Just thought that I would try to generate a little self-reflection in the way that we choose to respond and act here.
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Self reflection....
questioning our actions....
and motives....
is a good thing: )
((Gabbin))
Lighter
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One of my all time favorites, too. Thank you (((((((Lise)))))))) for posting it.
At one time, I hand wrote copies of this for each of my 4 children and kept my own copy in my Bible.
Back then, I thought it meant that I had to keep the peace at any cost.
I was wrong.
My misunderstanding of self-sacrifice threatened to further endanger my family...
and the most ironic thing of all is that it was the N who appeared on the scene to rescue me.
Oh, how perspectives change.
It's wonderful to see this prayer again through my new eyes.
Love,
Carolyn
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::raising goblet::
To new eyes, Amazons.
Yes.
Light