For all my fellow LRNASSTers, I offer this familiar prayer for the holiday season now upon us and the year to follow: (from Susan Gunn, [log in to unmask]) LORD, make me an instrument of Thy 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: and Where there is sadness, joy. 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. St. Francis of Assisi