outward

When times are challenging, it's easy to look inward and focus on myself. But, this serves as a great reminder to look outward and focus not on myself.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy 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;
It is in dying to self that we are born to eternal life.

- St. Francis