Prayer of St Francis

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:
Where there is hatred let me sow love,
Where there is doubt let me sow faith
Where there is despair let me sow hope,
Where there is darkness let me give light,
Where there is sadness let me give joy,
O divine master,
grant that I may not try to be comforted
but to comfort not try to be understood
but to understand not try to be love
but to love, for it is in giving that we receive,
it is forgiving that we are forgiven,
and in dying that we are born to eternal life .
Amen