Prayer of St. Francis

Lord, Make me an instrument of your peace;

where there is hatred, let me sow love;

where there is injury, pardon;

here there is doubt, 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 giving that we receive,

it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,

and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

 

- Saint Francis of Assisi