Peace-Bearers. (Sunday Thoughts Link Up #63)
JOHN 14:27
27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
I had something else planned for this week, but I cannot shake Parkland from my heart and mind. And I do not believe God wishes me to.
A friend of mine shared Saint Francis’s “Peace Prayer” and so I am passing it on to you:
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;
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.
May we all be consoling, understanding, loving believers. May we believe what Jesus promised the disciples before He left earth: He gives peace.
May we all be peace-bearers.
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