Lord, Hear Our Prayer

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace,
where there is hatred let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope,
where there is darkness, light,
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;
and it is in pardonning that we are pardonned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

By St. Francis of Assissi: 10th Century