In my toolbox – Peace

What can we do individually to use ourselves to help bring hope, understanding, peace, joy, and love to this troubled world? Yesterday, I posted a quote I snagged from ChristianNet.com. It said:  Jesus, I give my life to you.  Help me to glorify your name.  Amen
Today I’m posting the Prayer of St. Francis – Written near 1220, it’s a prayer applicable for today. It’s my prayer. I hope it’s yours too.
1 Corinthians 13:1-3,13  If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but I do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.  If I give away everything I own, and if I give over my body in order to boast, but do not have love, I receive no benefit.   And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.
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.
About St. Francis
St. Francis was born at Assisi in 1182. After a care free youth, he turned his back on inherited wealth and committed himself to God. Like many early saints, he lived a very simple life of poverty, and in so doing, gained a reputation of being the friend of animals. He established the rule of St Francis, which exists today as the Order of St. Francis, or the Franciscans. He died in 1226, aged 44.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI1Gst7pEqc
 

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