In remembrance of our friend, Todd Isaac, and in tribute to all people whose lives ended tragically on September 11, 2001, I offer my favorite prayer, the prayer of St. Francis, in their loving memory today:
- Make me a channel of your peace,
- Where there is hatred let me bring your love,
- Where there is injury your pardon Lord,
- And where there's doubt true faith in you.
- Make me a channel of your peace,
- Where there's despair in life, let me bring hope,
- Where there is darkness, only light,
- And where there's sadness, ever joy.
- O Master grant that I may never seek,
- So much to be consoled as to console,
- To be understood as to understand,
- To be loved as to love with all my soul.
- Make me a channel of your peace,
- It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
- In giving to all men that we receive
- And in dying that we are born to eternal life.
++ This is the prayer of St. Francis in hymn form. It is sung every November at the Service of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall in London. My favorite version is by Sinead O'Connor; it is haunting but beautiful.
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I told my 9-11 story last year in this post. The Guv is flying on 9-11 this year, and I'm trying not to be sick about it. Business as usual doesn't work for me on this day. I'm trying to figure out why this isn't a national day of remembrance -- a day off, when families can just hold each other and be thankful to be alive and together. I'll hug my kids and the Guv, when he gets home, a little more tightly. We are so lucky, so very, very lucky.
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