Theos-Talk Archives (September 2006 Message tt00404)

Prayer of St. Francis
Sophia has turned this prayer into a song (from Journey into Love, 1986)

Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace
Where there is hatred, let me sow love
Where there is injury, pardon
Where there is doubt, faith
Where there is darkness, light
Where there is sadness, joy

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 pardoning that we are pardoned
And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace ……