PEACE PRAYER SONG: In Loving Commemoration of Pope Francis

Inspired by the timeless words of Saint Francis of Assisi, I offer this song as a musical healing balm in the earthly loss of Pope Francis. May his radiant example of kindness, compassion and true leadership continue lighting our way through the volatility of our times.Yesterday was my Aunt Bernice's last earthly day of life. She was 95 years young; a beautiful artist and the matriarch of our family. A lifelong Catholic believer, Bernice was blessed in her last hours to receive the Pope's Easter Blessing through the mass on her hospital room TV. The poignant, sacred timing holds my heart in awe.May we honor the Christ-ness of Pope Francis by embodying his Easter blessing's words of peace, freedom and compassion. May we live in utter gratefulness as instruments of God's peace.I Am Thy instrument of peace Where there is hatred, I sow love Where there is injury, pardon Where there is doubt, faith Where there’s despair, hope Where there is darkness, light Where there is sadness, Joy O Divine may I not so much seek To be consoled as to console To be understood as to understand To be loved as to loveTo be love, to be LoveFor it is in giving we receive It’s in pardoning we are pardoned And it is in dying we are born to eternal, eternalLifeadapted from the Prayer of St. Franciscopyright © 2024 by Colleen Akiko