Rambling thoughts

Sandra's criteria for choosing a guy:
1. moderately sane
2. picks up his own socks

She figures these are the 'must-have' criteria. I am so glad she doesn't have the same criteria for the girl.... I would so fail :-) Well, I do pick up my socks. Most of the time. :-)

Today was caring ministry day.... We read the Prayer of St Francis, which I find touching:

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;
and 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.

I have difficulty with the personified deity theology - but still, lovely poem. We sang a version of it last year but I can't remember the composer and google seems to be obsessed with Sarah McLachlan...