A prayer by Saint Francis

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred . . . let me sow love
Where there is injury . . . let me be the one to pardon
Where there is doubt . . . let me give faith
Where there is despair . . let me bring hope
Where there is darkness . . . let me be light
Where there is sadness . . . let me give joy

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,
It is in dying . . .that we are born to eternal life

St Francis Prayers