From: Allison Leonard (0040-0319)

[Jayne Barket Lyons]

Back in February (geez, where has the time gone!) I received my very first mail from Allison Leonard (Hutchins, TX). 

It is a postcard featuring a glossy photo of a St. Francis garden statue.

Thanks, Allison!

Speaking of St. Francis, this is one of my favorite prayers:

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.