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Thread #99886   Message #1997489
Posted By: wysiwyg
15-Mar-07 - 10:03 AM
Thread Name: BS: Confessions of Pete Stark
Subject: RE: BS: Confessions of Pete Stark
I wonder if there is a consensus around the following, which although often referred to as the Prayer of Saint Francis, can be secularized as follows:

I choose to become an instrument of peace.
Where there is hatred, I choose to sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, confidence;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy...

... 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.

~Susan