Somethings should not be tampered with but I was recently reading this comforting prayer of St Francis and imagined that he would revise it in the 21st Century some 10 Centuries later.
You are free to reject the following revision. It is my musing. Use it if you like discard it if you prefer the original. Hopefully there is value in both.
God of all, make me as an instrument of intrinsic
peace.
Where there is hatred, let me offer love.
Where there is injury, let me offer compassion.
Where there is doubt, let me offer a human
embrace.
Where there is despair, let me offer a holding
heart.
Where there is darkness, let me offer the
contentment of presence.
Where there is sadness, let me offer the
envelope of kindness.
O Divine Leader and Model,
grant that I may first console, and then find I
am consoled and consoling;
grant that I may first understand, and then be
understood and understanding;
that I may first love, then be loved and loving.
For it is in giving that we receive, and in receiving
we give again
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned and
become pardoners
and it is in being willing to die that we rise
from dead things and
are born anew, now, to Eternal Loving and Living.
Amen.
Okay here is the original, I love it too!
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.
Amen.
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