Servant of Peace / Prayer of St. Francis
As most of my budding Intuitive Butterflies know, I am not techie AT ALL. But I am determined to learn to do these things for myself, especially after my horrific experience with the fraudulent VA from UpWork. So, today I was determined to upload/link my most recent videos to my webpage, all on my own.
I'm proud to say it's done now...I'm not proud to admit to phoning Jonathan Magnin of “You’re Closer Than You Think”, more than once. Nor am I proud to admit that this process, (even after Jonathan was kind enough to record a demo video for me,) took in excess of 4 hours out my day!!! For crying out loud it took me 45 minutes just to align things on the webpage!!!! ARGH!!! (Just a quick shout out to anyone else needing accountability, website branding and design or career discovery, Jonathan is amazing! And no, this is not affiliate! I just feel giving credit where credit is due is well warranted and I wouldn’t be where I am without Jonathan’s guidance over the past 3 years)
To say that I was frustrated earlier today would be a mere understatement...more than a few expletives flew around my house...
So how does one recover from such an experience? Music is my medicine, "My voice gives me strength" is an often repeated mantra at my house...so I found a YouTube and sang, loudly, (much to my son's dismay).
Today, the song Servant of Peace was my medicine...the part that truly makes my heart sing and my body release endorphins starts at 3minutes, 30 seconds. For some reason, this poem (Servant of Peace), sang to this particular music, just calms my being. Below I’ve copied the lyrics/poem and the history according to Wikipedia.
Although in modern times this is credited to Satnam Kaur, the song is a poem, written by ?? Yup, that's right, no one truly knows who wrote it...
Wiki says the following:
"The anonymous text that is usually called the Prayer of Saint Francis (or Peace Prayer, or Simple Prayer for Peace, or Make Me an Instrument of Your Peace) is a widely known Christian prayer for peace. Often associated with the Italian Saint Francis of Assisi (c. 1182 – 1226), but entirely absent from his writings, the prayer in its present form has not been traced back further than 1912.[1] Its first known occurrence was in French, in a small spiritual magazine called La Clochette (The Little Bell), published by a Catholic organization in Paris named La Ligue de la Sainte-Messe (The League of the Holy Mass). The author's name was not given, although it may have been the founder of La Ligue, Father Esther Bouquerel. The prayer was heavily publicized during both World War I and World War II.[2] It has been frequently set to music by notable songwriters and quoted by prominent leaders, and its broadly inclusive language has found appeal with diverse faiths encouraging service to others"
Being who I am, there are certain words within this poem that don't resonate with me so I just change them as I sing at the top of my lungs...
English translation:
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me bring love.
Where there is offence, let me bring pardon.
Where there is discord, let me bring union.
Where there is error, let me bring truth.
Where there is doubt, let me bring faith.
Where there is despair, let me bring hope.
Where there is darkness, let me bring your light.
Where there is sadness, let me bring joy.
O Master, let me not seek as much
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love,
for it is in giving that one receives,
it is in self-forgetting that one finds,
it is in pardoning that one is pardoned,
it is in dying that one is raised to eternal life.
Oh great, now I have to figure out how to link a video to this post now!!! JONATHAN!!! LOL
In Love and Light