Hands on your back
Peace Prayer of St. Francis 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; 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. Amen. I’ve heard this prayer all of my life but until the last few years of becoming a mother, lots of therapy, and getting sober, I never really understood it. When Leo first received his autism diagnosis I would pray for it to go away. I would pray for it to be different. Then I realized what a gift autism is and I started praying that his gifts would be seen. That he would live to his fullest potential. That he would be exactly who God made him. I’