January marks new beginnings. 

For this new year, choose love.

I leave with you this prayer from St. Francis of Assisi.  Born Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone, St Francis was an Italian Catholic friar, deacon, and mystic.

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.

 St Francis of Assisi (1181-1226)

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