Daily Devotion - Monday, August 16

Listening to Our Heart

This week’s devotions focus on listening to our hearts. The prayer for today is attributed to St. Francis.

What do you sense this prayer saying in your heart/soul/spirit/ whatever word you use to describe that internal sense of value and order for your life?

Lord,
Make me an instrument of thy 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.
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.

Have a better day today as you listen to your heart.

--Ben Keckler
08.16.10