A Life of Service

The following version of the poem by St. Francis is an excerpt reprinted from the following link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer_of_Saint_Francis

The hymn version of Make Me A Channel of Your Peace is an anthem of the Royal British Legion and is usually sung every year at the Service of Remembrance in November at the Royal Albert Hall, London. It goes as follows:

Make me a channel of your peace,

Where there is hatred let me bring your love,

Where there is injury your pardon Lord,

And where there's doubt true faith in you.

Make me a channel of your peace,

Where there's despair in life, let me bring hope,

Where there is darkness, only light,

And where there's sadness, ever joy.

O Master grant that I may never seek,

So much to be consoled as to console,

To be understood as to understand,

To be loved as to love with all my soul.

Make me a channel of your peace,

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,

In giving to all men that we receive

And in dying that we are born to eternal life.

Here, at the end of this poem, known by many, used in another form by Alcoholics Anonymous, are words that will confound the unbeliever in Christ, but yet another example of the witness of our Lord in a so commonly accepted verse. Be careful to look for ways to witness Christ, sometimes the witness is there around us to start a conversation, we just look right over it.