My prayer

Dear God:
I want to be of be of service. Use in me in Uganda to be an instrument of thy peace. I know you have called me to this work. You have given me skills that I hope to share with the teachers around Kibale. Please grant me the strength to do a good job in the work that I have been sent to do. Let me be open to all the lessons that I am suppose to learn. I know this is the next step in my life and on my journey as a Christ follower and a spiritual person.

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;
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.
Amen.
The Prayer of Saint Francis

The above has always spoken to me, I even used it in my fathers funeral when he passed in 2001. It seems all the more relevant as I get ready to live among another culture. I know to be successful in my work, I will have to adapt culturally and to be an instrument of peace.