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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.