Prayer for Peace -- St. Francis of Assisi

We've heard it a million times before, that working with prayer can be powerful, so many times that perhaps we forget just how the energy evoked by a prayer said from the heart can move in our lives. Prayer can bring healing, clear blocks within us, help us let go, and transform us. Prayers are essentially our calling out, our opening up, to simultaneously receive and offer assistance.

Try working with prayer, speaking it from your heart twice a day.... starting your day with the prayer and ending your day with the prayer. Give it time and see what happens.

Here is a lovely prayer for peace, the Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi. There are other prayers on this blog or you may have a favorite prayer of your own.

Prayer for Peace, Prayer of St. 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.

Amen

Listen to this prayer sung as a duet with James Twyman and Tina Malia.

Lord's Prayer - Aramaic Translation

Lords Prayer, from the original Aramaic

Translation by Neil Douglas-Klotz in Prayers of the Cosmos

O Birther! Father - Mother of the Cosmos

Focus your light within us - make it useful.

Create your reign of unity now -

through our fiery hearts and willing hands.

Help us love beyond our ideals

and sprout acts of compassion for all creatures.

Animate the earth within us: we then

feel the Wisdom underneath supporting all.

Untangle the knots within

so that we can mend our hearts' simple ties to each other.

Don't let surface things delude us,

But free us from what holds us back from our true purpose.

Out of you, the astonishing fire,

Returning light and sound to the cosmos.

Amen.