It's too bad...

...that these beauties are growing in our alley! Oh well, goes to show you that beauty and grace can be found in all sorts of places! You just have to look for it, even if it means going where you wouldn't normally go!

Now if I could just get them on the other side of that fence! ;o)

Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi

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;
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