Good morning.
I would like to share with you this morning a prayer that is both well know and timeless; a prayer that contains within it the heart of all faith traditions; a prayer that addresses every moment in the span of our lives. Commonly known as The Prayer of St. Frances, this variation was spoken by Mother Teresa
to the gathering of the United Nations General Assembly in 1985. Just for today, may each of us allow this prayer to be the desire of our own hearts:
Let’s pray.
Make us worthy Lord to serve our fellow men throughout the world,
Give them through our hands, this day, their daily bread
and by our understanding love give peace and joy.
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 forgetting self that one finds.
It is by forgiving that one is forgiven,
it is by dying that one awakens to eternal life.
Amen.
