Make Me A Channel of Your Peace

The spindle and desk of Gandhi in his Sabarmati

Ashram museum in Gujarat

I read a post by my blog friend SHERRI

and the prayer of St Francis came to mind.

I learnt this hymn as a child and sung

it in church and Christian meetings .

The words are the true essence of our faith

Sometimes when I receive a gift from

someone, my mother is quick to remind me

to either give it away or save it for so and so.

But I am selfish , I don 't

often do it.

When I got a bag of candy my Mom wanted

me to save it for others.

But I was too weak to do that.

It is my prayer that I

incorporate the words of this song

more fully into my life.

(the above photographs have been taken from the web)

A prayer of St Francis of Asisi

Make me a channel of your peace, Where there is hatred, let me bring Your love, Where there is injury, Your pardon Lord, And where there's doubt, true faith in You Make me a channel of your peace, Where there's despair in life let me bring hope, Where there is darkness - only light, And where there's sadness, ever joy Oh Master, grant that I may never seek, So much to be consoled as to console, To be understood, as to understand, To be loved, as to love with all my soul Make me a channel of your peace, It is in pardoning that we are pardoned, In giving to all men that we receive, And in dying that we're born to eternal life