Instrument Of Peace~

Amy Sky, Marc Jordan & Stephan Moccio; inspired by the words of Saint Francis of Assis~

Where there is hatred, let me bring love
Where there is doubt, let me bring faith
Where there is falsehood, let me bring truth
Where there is pain, I'll comfort you

Where there is silence, let me sing praise
Where there is despair, let me bring hope
Where there is blindness, let me bring sight
Where there is darkness, let me bring light

And with these words I speak
Grant that I may not seek
To be heard but to hear
To be consoled but to console
Not to be seen, but to see
To be loved but to love.

For when we give love we will receive.
When we forgive love, we will find reprieve
It is in dying we'll be released
Make me an instrument of peace . . . . . .

Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi

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;
and where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, 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 in dying that we are born to eternal life . . .

~Today~

"Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn! Look to this Day! For it is Life, the very Life of Life.
In its brief course lie all the Verities and Realities of your Existence.
The Bliss of Growth, The Glory of Action, The Splendor of Beauty;
For Yesterday is but a Dream, And To-morrow is only a Vision;
But To-day well lived makes Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness, And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
Look well therefore to this Day! Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!"

-Kalidasa-
renowned Classical Sanskrit writer,
widely regarded as the greatest poet and dramatist in the Sanskrit language~