JAVA WITH JOE presents

the view from the bottom

10 days of digging into the beatitudes

day 8

Blessed are the peacemakers,

for they will be called children of God.

Most of our actions either cause discord or harmony, division or unity. The choice is ours to make.

Take some time to pray this 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;
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.

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