Mike Pouraryan
SP Week-End (7/4/2010): Reflections
I have spent the past few hours reflecting and wrote about such in SP's sister sites, Kitten Politics and Outsider Views. As I thought about this day and our World, I reflected upon Mother Teresa and her Prayer. I carry a copy of her prayer in my wallet to remind me of what is important.
As I visited her site, I looked up one of her favorite prayers. It is the Prayer for Peace that St. Francis of Assisi did. I re-read it at least three times to be reminded of why it is important:
Lord, make me a channel of your peace, that
where there is hatred, I may bring love;
where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness;
where there is discord, I may bring harmony;
where there is error, I may bring truth;
where there is doubt, I may bring faith;
where there is despair, I may bring hope;
where there are shadows, I may bring light;
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 forgetting self that one finds;
it is by forgiving that one is forgiven;
it is by dying that one awakens to eternal life.
Amen.
(ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI)
My work here in "Outsiders" is dedicated to this. The need to keep the faith, to do what is right, to understand, to forgive, to bring joy and love. It is about being human. The challenge for each and everyone of us is do so. I pray that I am not too naive and a fool in this.
As I visited her site, I looked up one of her favorite prayers. It is the Prayer for Peace that St. Francis of Assisi did. I re-read it at least three times to be reminded of why it is important:
Lord, make me a channel of your peace, that
where there is hatred, I may bring love;
where there is discord, I may bring harmony;
where there is error, I may bring truth;
where there is doubt, I may bring faith;
where there is despair, I may bring hope;
where there are shadows, I may bring light;
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 forgetting self that one finds;
it is by forgiving that one is forgiven;
it is by dying that one awakens to eternal life.
Amen.
(ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI)
My work here in "Outsiders" is dedicated to this. The need to keep the faith, to do what is right, to understand, to forgive, to bring joy and love. It is about being human. The challenge for each and everyone of us is do so. I pray that I am not too naive and a fool in this.
