The Prayer of Peace

Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace;


Where there is hatred, let me sow love;


Where there is injury, pardon;


Where there is error, the truth;


Where there is doubt, the 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 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. Amen.

--St. Francis