The Disease of Selfishness

Pondering the hypothesis that depression is the disease of selfishness. The cure is to be selfless, in a constructive, spiritual sense, not in a negative way of course.

Dear God, please help me to fight this disease and to be as self-less as possible, helping others when they need it.

Hmmmm, I think the prayer of St. Francis is in order;

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 seekto 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.