The only thing I can do is include the wonderful prayer from St. Frances of Assisi. Look at the power of love expressed in this beautiful prayer.
This is not a group prayer. This is an individual prayer from each of us asking for the release of forgiveness where there is none and peace where there is anger and retribution. This is the spiritual power of love at work in our lives. This is the spiritual work required when the “rubber hits the road” and we are confronted with dreadful and uncomfortable realities.
Prayer of St. Francis
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. Amen.
