Instrument

A Prayer by Saint Francis of Assisi

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;

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.