Daily Prayer - May Peace light the world this Christmas

Good Wednesday morning, my friends.

As this season of "sparkle and bright" unfolds around us, the silent prayers of peace lie like stars hidden in a clouded night,
May we inspire the world with peace. May we touch it to our lives that in every place of stress, frustration, or fear, we might feel the presence of peace easing our hearts and transforming our lives. And may we share the its healing power with our children, that they might become the inspiration through which peace makes its way to a new yet-dreamt-of world.

 

May Peace light the world this Christmas.

 

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Grace and Peace be yours in abundance,

Bruce

 

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,

not so much to be understood as to understand,

not so much to be loved, as to love;

for it is in giving that we receive,

it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,

it is in dying that we awake to eternal life.

 

--- St. Francis of Assisi