And to your wonderful post, Jeanie, I would add..

"Make me an instrument of Thy peace;
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
And where there is sadness, joy.

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 dying that we are born to eternal life"

                                 St. Francis of Assisi

Jerry