(08-07-2010, 04:26 AM)Lorna Wrote: the one thing that i miss from going to church is hymns, such a powerful thing to hear a group of voices raised in song - my favourite is the prayer of st francis - we used to sing this version - beautiful
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.
I love this one Lorna, I think my favorite. St. Francis is my patron saint. Sarah Maclachlan has a version:
http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G4MqMe7Luc