With no update on Mandela's condition, friend urges: 'It's time to let him go'

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7. May your passage be gentle, as you go 'into that good night'.

"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, grants 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."

-- St. Francis of Assisi

President Mandela's life has been the living illustration of St. Francis' prayer. Go in peace, Mr. President.