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,
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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
