Step Eleven

[MajestyJo]

Prayer really does things. It cannot change God's intention, but it does change God's action.

-The Meaning of Prayer- author ~ Henry Emerson Fosdick~

originally posted @ Star Choices (My site, no longer available)


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 (to the self) that we are born to eternal life.

- St. Francis of Assisi