{"id":1836,"date":"2010-09-06T09:17:09","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T09:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janice-campbell.com\/?p=451"},"modified":"2020-06-08T20:35:46","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T20:35:46","slug":"prayer-of-francis-of-assisi-as-a-labor-day-meditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doingwhatmatters.com\/prayer-of-francis-of-assisi-as-a-labor-day-meditation\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi as a Labor Day Meditation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Labor Day in this part of the world, and I wanted to share this song from a prayer by St. Francis of Assisi as a meditation on the attitudes that can make labor beautiful. Whether you work in an office, a factory, or at home, you can choose to be an instrument of peace, and to bring love, pardon, faith, hope, light, and joy to those you live and work with.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/8hdWWCHyr_E\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,<br \/>\nWhere there is hatred, let me sow love;<br \/>\nwhere there is injury, pardon;<br \/>\nwhere there is doubt, faith;<br \/>\nwhere there is despair, hope;<br \/>\nwhere there is darkness, light;<br \/>\nwhere there is sadness, joy.<\/p>\n<p>O Divine Master,<br \/>\ngrant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;<br \/>\nto be understood as to understand;<br \/>\nto be loved as to love.<br \/>\nFor it is in giving that we receive;<br \/>\nit is in pardoning that we are pardoned;<br \/>\nand it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div>-St. Francis of Assisi<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Labor Day in this part of the world, and I wanted to share this song from a prayer by St. Francis of Assisi as a meditation on the attitudes that can make labor beautiful. 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