SAINT FRANCIS PRAYER
God, grant me strength to accept things I cannot change.

Leave hurtful relationships, wasting no physical and emotional energy trying to change them.

Recognise the futility of changing any individual's mind and character, simply by the amount of words we speak.
Rather, recognize that only God touches the heart of men and seek God's help always.

Accept all children's distinct characters and loving them nonetheless.

Spend no time listening to hateful remarks from people around,
Rather accept their status as spectators ever confined to watch us shine.

Engage in a mad dash to make wealth thus devising crooked means,
Instead of patiently building the capacity of making sustainable wealth.

Accept the existence of the seasons of plenty and lack,
Thus spending no time grumbling against God when things are not working fine.

Accept the permanence of temptations as challenges meant to usher us into greater heights in Christ.
Not, wasting time praying against the occurrence of temptations.

Accept that all the gifts that the devil offers, are Trojan horses.

Offering riches, in exchange for the soul, a far more valuable commodity.

Offering freedom from laws, thus setting a trap of habit and condemnation to a fatal end.

Offering children, disguised demons meant to destroy the glory of the family.

Finally, open our eyes to the understanding that the world is a marketplace, and after a period of time, an account of how we lived will be given.
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