A 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
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 understud 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
        - St. Francis of Assisi