THE PRAYER OF ST. FRANCIS
Lord, make me a channel of thy peace, that where there
is hatred, I may bring love; that where there is wrong, I may
bring the spirit of forgiveness; that where there is discord, I
may bring harmony; that where there is error, I may bring
truth; that where there is doubt, I may bring faith; that
where there is despair, I may bring hope; that where there are
shadows, I may bring light; that where there is sadness, I may
bring joy. Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort
than to be comforted; to understand, than to be
understood; to love, than to be loved. For it is by
self-forgetting that one finds. It is by forgiving that one is
forgiven. It is by dying that one awakens to Eternal Life
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