Lord, make me a channel of thy peace;
that where there is hatred, I may bring love;
that where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness;
that where there is discord, I may bring harmony;
that where there is error, I may bring truth;
that where there is doubt, I may bring faith;
that where there is despair, I may bring hope;
that where there are shadows, I may bring light;
that where there is sadness, I may bring joy.
Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort than to be comforted;
to understand, than to be understood;
to love, than to be loved.
For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.
It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.
It is by dying that one awakens to eternal life.
Amen.
Posts Tagged ‘Prayer of St.Francis’
23
Feb
Prayer of St.Francis
Lord, make me a channel of your peace
Allow love to flow through me, not from me. Let my love be unconditional, without attachment. Help me to give of myself with pure intention.
We are beings of energy. At the lowest level of our existence, if we were to take a microscope, at the lowest level possible, beyond the molecule, the atom, we would not find mass. We would find vibration. Energy. This energy is our live force, our chi. This life-force is neither good, nor bad for that is a human perception followed by a judgement. We determine good, or bad by our life experiences, our family upbringing, our culture - everything perceived through the eyes of being in this human form. We also see through the eyes of our soul - our accumulation of experience that we have brought with us into this lifetime.
Life-force is not good, or bad. It just IS. It is potential. We are potential. Potential for a future we are creating with our intentions.
We are all channels of energy, yet energy can become blocked in our body. Fear, which is the opposite of love, blocks the channel of peace that naturally runs through us. Peace and love is our birthright. It is a natural condition of our human existence. It is a gift that is rightfully yours.
Let us remove ourselves from fear. Let us remove the blocks, that prevent us from flowing naturally, expressing all that we are. Let us not be confused with expressing ourselves with judgement and perception of what is good, or bad, thereby, expecting something in return, that too, is either good or bad.
For now, let us be in the moment, and be a channel of peace.
Amen