Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light;

Four years ago, I made some dire predictions about the incoming President. I was wrong. It was worse than I predicted. He shook the literal foundations of our democracy. But, they held. And today, we see the inauguration of the antithesis of the last president. 

Joe Biden is a good man. You may disagree with his politics, but his innate humanity can not be questioned.  He truly lives his faith, attending mass with the leaders of the opposition, before he takes on the monumental task of leading this fractured nation  to a better place.

Pres. Biden reminds me of what is best about the faith of my father. While it's been many years since I attended mass, this prayer, which I first heard at Our Lady of Fatima Elementary School, from a Franciscan nun,  is very much the center of my life. And based on the life he's led, at the center of Pres. Biden's. 

The 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