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Transforming My Life
Interestingly, I am writing this article on Francis’s feast day. I found that this day is significant in certain religious groups. I am thrilled to be able to share how much his prayer has helped me on this day of celebrating St. Francis, who now has reincarnated as the current pope.
I first read this prayer as an adult from a book that alcoholics use. In my childhood, all prayers came from a hymnal. Therefore finding this written prayer was great. The first time I read it, I did not understand how deep and meaningful this prayer is. When I was still new in trying to understand its many parts, I had a difficult evening. I wanted to go to a support group meeting to find some answers for my life. I thought it would help me find the answers to my problem. We had been driving home and were going by the place where the meeting was being held. My husband would not agree to drive to the spiritual meeting. I was most upset over not being understood in my life. In fact, I was fuming.
When we arrived home, I decided to get into the hot tub and say this prayer to myself. I thought this would be helpful. It certainly was. As I remembered different parts of this prayer, the words, ” to understand, than be understood” came into my mind, powerfully.
In a second, I realized that God understood me and that is all that mattered. Others did not have to understand me because God did. That was the best validation and acceptance I could have. Immediately my mind changed into a better attitude. I understand now, that I moved from being needy to finding I was not needy; God was there for me. That is all that mattered. He understood me. This brought a new light into my life. I had always felt needy and now it was gone. I was understood. God was supplying what I required. A new security came into my life that has become the bedrock of my being today.
St. Francis of Assisi Prayer
Lord, make me a channel of thy peace—that where there is hatred, I may bring love—that where there is wrong, I am may bring the spirit of forgiveness—that where there is discord, I may bring harmony—that where there is error, I may bring truth—that where there is doubt, I may bring faith—that where there is despair, I may bring hope—that where there are shadows, I may bring light—that 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 self-forgetting that one finds. It is by forgiving that one is forgiven. It is by dying that one awakens to Eternal Life, Amen
This prayer takes me out of my selfish and egocentric ways of survival to become selfless in serving others in God’s love. Like the cream rises to the top, my love comes into my life to be “The New Me”. * (Poem from Roses Have Thorns)
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