Was the last line of the prayer: 'permeate our beings with the fragrance of thy presence'? Maybe there are more than one rendition of it.
I've got an idea about the manifestation. I agree that the # 1 manifestation would be St. Francis' 'overcoming oneself'.
As Steve says, overcoming one's mood, tiredness, negative feelings, anger, desires and so on. It isn't easy.
What I'm going to do propose is to go on with regular reports here. Manifestation reports. Something like:
Today I was able to overcome myself 10%
Today I wasn't able to overcome, because of this and that. We may learn either from positive and negative experiences.
I don't know if it is good to continue in this thread or start another. The decision to the administrator
i like your ending of the prayer for now because it brings God's presence into our eating as well.
