A Prayer of St. Francis

Lord;
Make me an instrument of your peace
where there is hatred let me bring love
where there is injury, let me bring pardon
where there is doubt, let me bring faith
where there is despair, let me bring hope
where there is darkness, let me bring light
where there is sadness, let me bring 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. It is dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.