Unshackled Moments ~ October 2 ~ You'd Be Better Off Dead

It is in dying that we are born to eternal life. That's right, you have to die to get life, and you'd be better off dead. When we seek to fulfill our life and will, when  we put ourselves first, and even when we try to be unselfish and good in our own strength it leads to misery and death. It's one of those  weird truisms that  doesn't sound logical but is as real as 2+2=4. If we seek to save our life we'll lose it, but in laying down  our life, all of it good and bad, willingly in surrender to God, we find life that is worth living, more and better than we could have hoped for, and that never ends.  

The Prayer Of St. Francis ends as it begins, reminding us that we must set aside our life and will for His in order to live and serve and be a light of the peace and love of God. Lord, help us to hold nothing back when we pour out our praise, service and loves to You today so that we can be an unhindered instrument of Your peace. Amen. 

Peace Prayer Of Saint 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.

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