Strawberry Story: St. Francis Prayer

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 remains a family affair:



St. Francis statue at Mission San Luis, Tallahassee
(note: have you EVER seen a St. Francis with a skull before?)

Ellie and St. Francis, Nombre de Dios, St. Augustine

Ellie at final resting place of Janet, Loie, and Arthur Trever. 
First United Methodist Church, St. Francis Garden, Arlington Heights

Mom's St. Francis Garden, Arlington Heights.

St. Francis Garden, Winter 2007.

Trever pays his respects to his namesakes.

Two more Trevers across the way.

PS Today is Arthur Nelson Trever's birthday, born January 21, 1915.